Conveners
Strategies and Methods
- Thomas Schubatzky
Strategies and Methods
- Mo Basir
Strategies and Methods
- Mieke De Cock
Description
Strategies and Methods to Improve Physics Learning and Teaching
From good practices to new tested approaches.
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Javier Alejandro Pulgar Neira7/4/22, 3:00 PMStrategies and Methods to Improve Physics Learning and TeachingOral presentation
In the performance of student groups, both within and outside-group interactions are critical for accessing and developing ideas. Outside-group collaboration is rarely studied, let alone the conditions that drive such interactions, for instance having friends outside one’s team. This study explores whether random assigned or friendship-based groups associate with higher rates of outside-group...
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Dr Thomas Schubatzky7/4/22, 3:20 PMStrategies and Methods to Improve Physics Learning and TeachingOral presentation
Understanding the scientific principles underlying climate change supports students to evaluate information regarding climate change in their everyday life. Concept inventories allow us to capture a current understanding of students but also commonly held alternative conceptions. Therefore, we developed a climate change concept inventory (CCCI-422) regarding five core concepts that are...
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Hans Bekaert7/4/22, 3:40 PMStrategies and Methods to Improve Physics Learning and TeachingOral presentation
To better understand student difficulties to explain the apparent motion of the Sun and stars, and to gain insight in whether their explanations are based on specific mental models, we designed a test instrument that systematically probes different aspects of these apparent motions.
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We administered the test to 410 Belgian students. Based on students’ explanations, we developed a... -
Prof. Mieke De Cock (KU Leuven)7/4/22, 4:00 PMStrategies and Methods to Improve Physics Learning and TeachingOral presentation
Many young children, students, and adults have difficulties describing and explaining the apparent motion of the Sun and stars. However, a good understanding is essential to study more advanced astronomical concepts. Bekaert and colleagues developed and validated a dedicated test that allows to systematically map secondary school students’ understanding of the Apparent Motion of the Sun and...
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Rayendra Bachtiar (Utrecht University)7/5/22, 2:00 PMStrategies and Methods to Improve Physics Learning and TeachingOral presentation
Although existing studies reported the promising results from students-constructed stop-motion animation (SMA) in supporting mechanistic reasoning (MR), these studies lacked theoretical perspectives underlying the results. To fill the need, our study developed a cognitive framework linking the nature of SMA construction (chunking and sequencing) and elements of MR. This framework was utilized...
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Tatiana Sukeľová7/5/22, 2:20 PMStrategies and Methods to Improve Physics Learning and TeachingOral presentation
In this contribution, we focus on concept cartoons as an incentive to stimulate experimental activity. Concept cartoons have many different uses. We were concerned with stimulating experimental activities. We conducted a survey aimed at stimulating discussion in the teaching process using concept cartoons and we found out, they also stimulate students to experimental activities, since students...
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Ms Adriana Macuka (Elementary school "Vladimir Nazor" - Krnica)7/5/22, 2:40 PMStrategies and Methods to Improve Physics Learning and TeachingOral presentation
Students often have difficulty connecting problems in physics with their respective mathematical representation. Numerous studies have been conducted on this topic, but were almost exclusively focused on high school and college physics students. The sample size in this study is focused on 14-year-old elementary school students. A statistically significant positive correlation was obtained for...
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Mr Roger Andersson (Malardalen university)7/5/22, 3:00 PMStrategies and Methods to Improve Physics Learning and TeachingOral presentation
In this study we are investigate how learners of introductory geometrical optics express disciplinary relevant aspects multimodaly during inquiry-based learning supported by a computer simulation. Students’ discussions and work with the simulation was filmed, transcribed and analysed using conversation analysis. In the parts where students expressed signs of disciplinary relevant aspects, we...
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Mo Basir7/5/22, 3:20 PMStrategies and Methods to Improve Physics Learning and TeachingOral presentation
Studies in science education and learning psychology have shown that student misconceptions and paranormal beliefs may have caused by a same mechanism, intuitive thinking. Since the coordination of theory and evidence, and being reflective about the epistemic practice are effective approaches to change student alternative conceptions, they may also influence paranormal beliefs, we wondered. We...
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Muhammad Aswin Rangkuti7/7/22, 4:00 PMStrategies and Methods to Improve Physics Learning and TeachingOral presentation
Even though the (1-D) wave equation may seem simple at a first glance, it actually contains a lot of information and making sense of it is far from trivial. This study investigates students’ main conceptual difficulties in understanding the physical meaning of the wave equation, by conducting semi-structured interviews. The study also provides various teaching experiments that assist students...
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Malte Diederich7/7/22, 4:20 PMStrategies and Methods to Improve Physics Learning and TeachingOral presentation
Mindsets can have a great impact on learning and play a particularly important role when facing challenges such as transition from school to university. In two questionnaire surveys at the start and two months into the semester, the mindset of university first-years in several STEM subjects was measured with domain general and newly developed domain specific scales. The relation with the...
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Dr Michal Walter (Weizmann Institute of Science)7/7/22, 4:40 PMStrategies and Methods to Improve Physics Learning and TeachingOral presentation
GrouPer is a learning analytics tool presenting groups of students who exhibit similar knowledge structures in specific curricular topics alongside related semantic information. It is designed to support teachers in personalizing instruction. We examined how high school Physics teachers (N=20) interpreted the data provided by the GrouPer via interviews and self-reports reflecting on their...
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Prof. Mieke De Cock (Dept Physics & Astronomy & LESEC, KU Leuven)7/7/22, 5:00 PMStrategies and Methods to Improve Physics Learning and TeachingOral presentation
As problem solving is an important aspect of physics education, we want students to become able to regulate their solving process. Therefore, in addition to sufficient conceptual understanding and procedural knowledge, they need metacognitive skills. We present a prototype for an online tool that aims at stimulating students’ metacognitive skills for problem solving through problem-specific...
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Jun-ichiro Yasuda (Yamagata university)Strategies and Methods to Improve Physics Learning and TeachingOral presentation
We improved test efficiency of a computerized adaptive testing (CAT)-based version of the force concept inventory (FCI) by utilizing the pretest proficiency estimate of each respondent. We conducted a Monte Carlo simulation to analyze how implementing this algorithm affects the accuracy and precision of Cohen's $d$ and calculated the minimal test length of the FCI-CAT whose accuracy and...
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