Conveners
Innovative strategies at school: 007,008,015,017
- Chairman: Tetyana Antimirova
Innovative strategies at school: 038,047,056,064,066
- Chairman: Jitka Houfková
Innovative strategies at school: 044,153,146,158,085
- Chairman: Katarína Kozelková
Innovative strategies at school: 011,162,026
- Chairman: Wim Peeters
Innovative strategies at school: 121,179,189,163
- Chairman: Federico Corni
Description
SCH: Innovative strategies and pathways to improve physics education at school
Awakening, recognizing, and fostering gifted students is a challenge in science education, that teachers should address for the purpose of a comprehensive STEM support. A number of models and strategies are known for promoting giftedness. In this talk, we will discuss to what extent a format such as the Physics Olympiad is at all suitable to meet the desiderata of educating the gifted....
We are surrounded by a lot of information and some of it is not based on truth. In physics classes, we should teach students how to identify information in scientific articles that are not scientifically correct – develop their critical reading skills. Activity will be presented using two newspaper articles, which were implemented by primary and secondary school pupils. After reading the text,...
Learning about Electricity suffers from the fundamental concepts being difficult to understand for students. The multimedia application “PUMA : Spannungslabor” was developed to support students by visualizing didactic analogies for electricity. The application uses Augmented Reality-technology to place a digital representation atop a real-world circuit. It is connected to the real-world...
Two curricula of introducing measurement uncertainties for high school students have been developed. The central design principle was “trustworthiness of experiments and data” following the GUM recommendations of Type-A and Type-B methods. A time-delayed post-test showed the long term acceptance of the key ideas.
SEK-1 starts with an experiment that leads them to measurement uncertainties....
Much research has shown that students’ misconceptions of radioactivity and ionizing radiation are common and have a significant impact on their learning process and their ability to act as responsible citizens. The use of MiniPIX cameras, based on the Timepix hybrid pixel detectors read out designed at CERN, is bringing experimental particle physics and radioactivity into secondary education....
Motion simulation programs can be key components in learning mechanics due to their sandbox approach and intuitive use. In our research we focus on examining, whether students who use a motion simulation program while learning mechanics learn the curriculum more effectively. To measure this, we conducted an experiment that involved 700 students. The data shows, that the students who learned...
This contribution reports the findings of a study with approximately 400 secondary school students in Germany. These students were introduced to a physics problem and had different opportunities to handle hypotheses, before analysing measurement data. First results indicate that if students have high data competencies, then the hypothesis does not influence students’ data-based conclusions....
A central goal of PER is to improve the quality of physics instruction. Therefore, researchers develop and disseminate teaching-learning solutions, like course formats, teacher guides, or student materials to support teachers in practice. The paradigm of Design-Based-Research (DBR) is one framework used to develop such teaching-solutions systematically. DBR also aims to contribute to local...
Several research-based suggestions have been made on how concepts from particle physics can be taught to high school students. A frequently used subject-related representation within particle physics is the so-called Feynman diagram. However, very little is known about how this form of representation is perceived by students.
This project aims to design learning materials for 16-19-year-olds...
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...
As part of the AT-NE-ST project, which aims to bring children closer to complexity and sensors, we designed and tested an educational path for middle schools concerning the development of the concepts of heat and temperature. It is based on a narrative approach and the exploitation of basic mental schemes. A series of measurements are carried out using appropriate sensors on model buildings in...
The advancement of space exploration is an important socio-scientific and political issue in Sweden. This study attempts to understand secondary school students’ awareness about this national “space ethos” and roles of space technology in their everyday life. Methodologically, this research draws on a sociocultural framework and examines the reflections of 69 grade 9 students in a...
Electrical concepts are difficult to grasp for secondary school students. According to multimedia learning theories, multimedia technology can be used to support the learning of didactic models and the collection of data in experiments. A study was conducted with 200 secondary school students, investigating the effects of using multimedia applications on students’ conceptual knowledge gain and...
Assessment plays an important role in teaching and learning. Within the assessment, teachers and students interact to obtain the information needed to improve learning. As the learning can be supported by the quality assessment, the survey was conducted at the lower and upper-secondary schools to investigate the assessment and feedback students were given. The paper describes the results of...
Despite its relevance in secondary science education, measurement uncertainty is a topic that is largely neglected in classroom practice and for which hardly any suitable (evaluated) teaching material exists. Consequently, it is a topic that many students have conceptual difficulties with. To investigate how this topic can be introduced, we developed a digital learning environment and report...
The research focuses on the effectiveness of classical dynamics teaching methods. A group working with a frontal teaching method was compared with two groups working with a learning activity-based method, one of which used a model rocket project to learn the subject. We investigated whether there were differences between the groups in the occurrence of conceptual changes related to dynamics...
Nowadays in teaching physics in high school, one of the biggest problems is attracting and maintaining students' attention. Gamification can be a very easy and exciting way to get students involved in the class. In my research, I used an RPG (role-playing game) based online platform (Classcraft), where the students can have their own character that they can personalize and level up as they...
This study aimed to investigate the practices, and perspectives of in-service elementary and middle school teachers in Italy (N=74) and Turkey (N=56) regarding the properties of matter. A new questionnaire was created and used to collect data. Results showed that teachers in both countries mainly focused on the temperature in change of state. Their least concern was on magnetic susceptibility...
Scientific education needs to be started early, with explorative experiences of the physical world. This contribution presents the implementation of a Teaching Intervention Module (TIM) on magnetic phenomena, using integrated strategies of active learning and arts. A theatrical performance is designed, prepared and implemented by children, during and for their own learning of the main basic...
Elixir to Schools started ten years ago as a project aimed at improving physics education in the Czech Republic. It soon became apparent that it was sensible to support teachers from the primary school, and over time the support was extended to preschool teachers as well. Therefore, for the last five years, Elixir to schools has also targeted these teachers. This contribution has two main...
As a school-university collaboration, the Eszterhazy University Eger in Hungary has launched the Physics from the suitcase project in 2019, i.e. it established a lending library of classroom-sized experimental kits. Pre-service teachers designed inquiry-based activity sheets for the optics and the electricity kits, covering 12-14 weeks of teaching. The two, one-semester-long modules have been...
