| Table I. The FCI sub-test: the degree of progress of JHS students who ere taught with our method. | |||
| FCI item (from N3) | No. of classes | No. of students | <g>** |
| 2 | 11 | 242 | 0.68 |
| 11 | 11 | 242 | 0.46 |
| 13 | 11 | 242 | 0.58 |
| 14* | 3 | 61 | 0.82 |
| average | 0.64 | ||
| * The question was administered only in three of the seven classes that participated in the study | |||
| ** <g> is the degree of progress1 of the students and indicates the real effectiveness of the approach. <g> = (post-test score − pre-test score)/(100 − pre-test score) | |||
| Table II. Students' achievements in a problem taken from the physics matriculation exam. The ninth-graders studied by the method described herein. | |||
| Group | n | answered correctly (%) | explained correctly (%) |
| Heterogeneous ninth-graders | 360 | 47 | 41 |
| Advanced physics 12th-graders | 1115 | 42 | 31 |