26–30 Aug 2024
Auditorium Maximum UJ
Europe/Warsaw timezone

Factors of quality of physics demonstrations

28 Aug 2024, 11:30
10m
Seminar Room

Seminar Room

Poster Experiments and Practical Work in Physics Education Poster session

Speaker

Alexandr Nikitin (Department of Physics Education, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Prague)

Description

This paper describes a video study of physics demonstrations for upper-secondary school students from the perspective of parties relevant in physics education – physics teacher trainers, pre-service physics teachers, in-service physics teachers and upper-secondary students. The video-recordings of the performances are divided into numerous short sections, which are evaluated on prepared rating scales. Results show that the overall impression of short sections is mainly influenced by the atmosphere in the auditorium. Other relevant factors are the clarity of lecturer's speech and the clarity of experiments. These factors explain about 85% of the variance in the overall impression of these sections.

How would you like to present your contribution? Live in Kraków (time slot to be allotted based on the programme)
Target education level Secondary
Category Non-formal Education

Authors

Alexandr Nikitin (Department of Physics Education, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Prague) Dr Marie Snětinová (Department of Physics Education, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Prague) Dr Petr Kácovský (Department of Physics Education, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Prague)

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