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Learning to ride a bike helps a physics student understand center of gravity, and force vectors.

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Your point that an exercise repeated until mastered will lead to understanding/ comprehension is excellent. This is a basic method to learning many things. We need some exposure to a thing, process or method before we can begin to see how it connects in other ways.

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Thank you. I just modified one of the paragraphs in this article. I have included this sentence: "This idea that one hundred percent of all students must understand one hundred percent of all the concepts behind one hundred percent of all procedures is one hundred percent unrealistic, misguided and damaging."

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Yes, testing and evaluation were basic to helping a student move forward. The ability to consistently get the right answers proved understanding.

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