Performance Is Not Understanding

Physics, AI and the Fight for Real Learning

von Neil Atkin

174 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

AI can now produce polished, correct answers in seconds. So what does a correct answer actually prove?Performance Is Not Understanding examines one of education's most urgent problems: the growing gap between producing a convincing answer and genuinely understanding the ideas beneath it.Physics makes that gap unusually visible. Drawing on real classroom responses-including striking comparisons between pupils, trainee teachers and experienced educators-Neil Atkin explores the mental models that shape how people reason about forces, graphs, energy and electricity.The book shows how teachers can: - uncover the thinking behind an answer- recognise confident but fragile understanding- use prediction, surprise and reflection to challenge existing models- employ AI as a diagnostic lens rather than an authority- preserve teacher judgement, curiosity and intellectual struggleThis is not an anti-AI book. It is an argument for using AI more intelligently: to reveal thinking, generate better questions and help teachers decide what learners need next.Written for physics teachers, non-specialists, trainee teachers, teacher educators and anyone reconsidering assessment in the age of AI, it combines classroom experience with a practical diagnostic framework.Neil Atkin has spent more than 35 years teaching physics and developing teachers internationally, including work with the Institute of Physics, Physics Partners and CERN.

• Reihe: Independently published
• ISBN: 9798174724310
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 16.09.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Independently published