Speaker
Benedikt Gottschlich
(Physics Education Research Group, University of Tübingen)
Description
Learners tend to perceive electric circuits as abstract and uninteresting, and often fail to achieve a basic conceptual understanding. Therefore, we have developed a teaching concept for simple circuits with real-world contexts which is based on findings from research on students' interests and includes contexts that appeal to different interest types. Controlling for various covariates in an empirical evaluation, we find no significant differences between the conventionally taught group (n = 24 classes) and the context-based taught group (n = 11 classes) based on the preliminary data in terms of the development of conceptual understanding and affective variables.
| How would you like to present your contribution? | Live in Košice (time slot to be allotted based on the programme) |
|---|---|
| Target education level (primary) | Lower-secondary education |
Author
Benedikt Gottschlich
(Physics Education Research Group, University of Tübingen)
Co-authors
Claudia Haagen-Schützenhöfer
Prof.
Jan-Philipp Burde
(PER Group, University of Tübingen)
Lana Ivanjek
Dr
Liza Dopatka
(PER Group, Technical University of Darmstadt)
Martin Richard Hopf
Thomas Schubatzky
Thomas Wilhelm
(Goethe-University Frankfurt)
Verena Spatz
