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...Paul G. Bamberg Jr. '63, associate professor of Physics, said yesterday that Harvard should use undergraduates as teaching assistants to help individualize instruction in large lecture courses...
...will be especially disturbing if the administration takes the cheating incident as a sign that it should crack down on innovative instructional and teaching methods because they make it, as Dean Whitlock said last week, "easy and even tempting to cheat." Paul G. Bamberg, associate professor of Physics and the instructor of Physics S-1, has been a pioneer in developing methods of self-paced teaching that are designed to emphasize individual learning rather than performance on final exams, an emphasis that pre-med courses at Harvard badly need. Although Bamberg may not have been sufficiently wary of the possibility...
...Bamberg said that the absence of competition in self-paced instruction is complemented by the student's interest inherent in the method. Bamberg also noted that self-paced instruction reduces the importance of time as a criterion of learning and that the possibility of retaking tests might lead in the end to a better understanding of the material...
Despite the different experimental conditions of the two courses, both instructors stressed the importance of section leaders in student evaluations. "The evaluation of sections varied more according to section leaders than methods of instruction," Bamberg said...
...experiments separated the courses into a self-paced instruction group and a control group. Bamberg also included a third group of modified self-paced instruction while encouraging the wholly self-paced group to avoid lectures and hour exams. Both of Allison's groups were required to fulfill the usual course requirements...