Correction: Two professors teaching non-honors mechanics at Harvard. Authors' claim that using the non-honors course filtered out the "most well-prepared" stud

Correction: Two professors teaching non-honors mechanics at Harvard. Authors' claim that using the non-honors course filtered out the "most well-prepared" students. The class appears to count as credit towards a physics degree and 1/3 of the class went on to pursue a physics degree. Sure it's calculus-based, but non-calculus based mechanics is, IMO, educational malpractice at the collegiate level. You can do a qualitative approach to mechanics without calculus, but that ought not fill up an entire semester; a "survey of physics" class could take such an approach, but a purely mechanics class ought not. [edit] Also, the marginal student at Harvard is going to be quite similar to a student at any number of only-slightly-less selective schools. I could see an argument that this might not replicate at a large non-selective state school, but (assuming it replicates at Harvard), I'd assume it would replicate across a wide swath of selective schools.