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Lindstrom, Christine; Sharma, Manjula D. – Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, 2011
In 2006 a new type of tutorial, called Map Meeting, was successfully trialled with novice first year physics students at the University of Sydney, Australia. Subsequently, in first semester 2007 a large-scale experiment was carried out with 262 students who were allocated either to the strongly scaffolding Map Meetings or to the less scaffolding…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Physics, Workshops, Foreign Countries
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Viennot, Laurence; Kaminski, Wanda – International Journal of Science Education, 2006
This paper describes an attempt at evaluating a potentially critical "detail" of teaching practice; that is, using a particular diagram to illustrate the imaging role of a converging lens. This "basic" diagram has been designed to contribute to help students overcome the well-known "travelling image" syndrome. We conducted a comparative study with…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Physics, Optics, Visual Aids
Kromhout, Ora M. – 1972
Computer tutorial review lessons for a one-quarter lecture course in introductory college physics have been developed and used by approximately 500 students, on a voluntary basis, over a period of several years. The investigation reported here shows that the exam grades of students who used the computer materials are significantly higher (.01…
Descriptors: Achievement, College Science, Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Instruction
Werner, Jenny Lynn; Klein, James D. – 1999
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of learning strategy and summarization within a computer-based chemistry and physics program. High school students worked individually or in cooperative dyads to complete science instruction; half of them completed summaries over the instructional content when directed to do so. The study…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Instruction, Cooperative Learning