The speaker asserts that educators should assess the students' learning on the ability to explain the ideas, trends, and concepts that those facts illustrate not on students' grasp of facts. In my view, this statement is too absolute. The educators assess the students learning on which aspect depend on the disciplines or the content the students learn .The speaker's opinion does not suitable for all conditions. When the students of art learn the course about the prominent painter's works .It is hard to imagine the teacher just demand students to recite the fact or the details of the pictures. This rote memorization just exercises students' memory and they can comprehend little about the artist's real thought .On the country teachers should recommend the artist's ideas and the trend of art of the artist's period .Without understanding the Picasso's ideas of arts ,the students cannot really comprehend his unthinkable creativity .Without knowing the Beethoven's life ,the students cannot understand the intension of each music. That is why just remember the facts is useless and inefficiency.
But sometimes, without the large number of fact, the student's will bewildered and confused about the ideas, trends or concepts .For instance, when students learn history, they should first recite a lot of events and the period of each events. Then they will have entire concept to the history. If they can connect these events by times ,the trends of this period will be clear without learning. That is why people say accumulation is so significant that when we know more facts , it will connect each other naturally .That is why we cannot ignore the importance of the facts in some cases. Besides, when we study some disciplines such as physics ,we should learn the fact and the idea or concept at same time . For the facts is easier to understand ,we can conduct some experiments and remember the fact or formula first so that we can resolve the practical questions. Then learn the ideas or concepts of the facts which can help us remember the fact easily and use it flexible. That means it is better to connect the facts and ideas or concepts in sometimes. Without each part ,the knowledge will be not entire which will have bad effect to understand and apply of it. Although grasp the ideas trends or concepts do important than just grasp the fact in sometime .the speaker is too hasty to convince that it can suit to all the conditions for teachers to assess a students. On the contrary, the teachers of different disciplines should have different standard to assess their students.
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