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Jiraporn Poonyawatpornkul; Supranee Pitsamai; Onuma Methakesorn; Kotchakorn Mangmee – Journal of Learning for Development, 2025
This case study investigated the conceptual understanding of the Simple Pendulum topic amongst physics student-teachers using online experiments. A pre-experimental design was utilised, employing a one-group pretest-posttest approach with 20 student-teachers. The research instruments included a highspeed video activity conducted within Online…
Descriptors: Scientific Concepts, Motion, Physics, Preservice Teachers
Richard Brock; Keith S. Taber; D. M. Watts – International Journal of Science Education, 2024
Some descriptions of learning represent the process as the development of organisations of elements. Various organisations have been proposed, for example, schemata and conceptual structures. Such representations assume that mental entities, such as concepts, are sufficiently stable and differentiated to be treated as units. We discuss these…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Secondary School Science, Motion
Boublil, Shachar; Blair, David; Treagust, David F. – Teaching Science, 2023
The demand for improving student interest in science has increased efforts toward teaching Einstein's theory of general relativity in schools. Research has already shown that teaching Einsteinian gravity at the secondary level is feasible, however, appropriate resources must be readily available for science teachers to make Einsteinian gravity…
Descriptors: Science Experiments, Scientific Concepts, Physics, Middle School Students
Ha, Sangwoo; Kim, Minchul – Science & Education, 2020
Experiment is understood as a core activity in science education as well as science in general. Despite many efforts to improve science education in the laboratory, a cookbook style of verification experiments often dominate school science. In this study, we conducted an open laboratory activity that provided students with an opportunity to think…
Descriptors: Science Experiments, Physics, Motion, Academically Gifted
Florian, Aurelia-Daniela; Florian, Gabriel; Trocaru, Sorin – Acta Didactica Napocensia, 2022
In this paper is presented a pilot study for the investigation of the relevant factors within some experimental works carried out by students, after going through the learning unit "Movement and rest", which can be found in the chapter "Principles and laws in classical mechanics", from the physics curriculum for the ninth grade…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Science Laboratories, Mechanics (Physics), Grade 9
Takemura, Atsushi – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2022
Science and technology education necessitates teaching and learning experiments involving electronic circuit construction and measurements using experimental equipment. In this study, a novel cross reality system for learning physical circuit construction and performing virtual experiments using virtual experimental equipment with mid-air haptics…
Descriptors: Science Education, Technology Education, Electronic Equipment, Science Experiments
Pendrill, Ann-Marie – Physics Education, 2021
Take a selection of balls and marbles along to a nearby playground slide and let students investigate factors that may influence how balls accelerate down an inclined plane. Students can make hypotheses in small groups, plan investigations to test multiple possible explanations and draw conclusions about the importance of different variables. The…
Descriptors: Physics, Motion, Science Activities, Active Learning
Priemer, Burkhard; Pfeiler, Stephan; Ludwig, Tobias – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2020
We report the findings of an empirical study that investigated whether the source of data--firsthand or secondhand data gained from lab work experiments--has an influence on students' learning outcomes. Results indicate that students' choice of a correct or incorrect hypothesis for a pendulum lab experiment on the influence of the mass of the bob…
Descriptors: Laboratory Experiments, Science Experiments, Motion, Scientific Concepts
Küchemann, S.; Klein, P.; Fouckhardt, H.; Gröber, S.; Kuhn, J. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2020
The concepts of the Coriolis and the centrifugal force are essential in various scientific fields and they are standard components of introductory physics lectures. In this paper, we explore how students understand and apply concepts of rotating frames of reference in the context of an example lecture demonstration experiment. We found in a…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Scientific Concepts, Physics, Concept Formation
Trudel, Louis; Métioui, Abdeljalil – International Baltic Symposium on Science and Technology Education, 2019
The relative speed concept was chosen since it is linked with the relative nature of motion and it is likely that the students would harbor many alternative conceptions about it. The research objective was to identify the various ways students conceive relative motion. Qualitative data collected in various forms of representation received a…
Descriptors: High School Students, Secondary School Science, Models, Motion
Zang, Jiaqi; Hu, Haojie; Zhong, Juhua; Luo, Duanbin; Fang, Yi – Physics Education, 2018
To introduce the randomness of a physical process to students, a chaotic pendulum experiment was opened in East China University of Science and Technology (ECUST) on the undergraduate level in the physics department. It was shown chaotic motion could be initiated through adjusting the operation of a chaotic pendulum. By using the data of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, College Science, Physics
Kaps, Andreas; Stallmach, Frank – Physics Education, 2022
Smartphone-based experimental exercises were incorporated as part of the homework problems in an introductory mechanics course at a university. A quasi-experimental field study with two cohorts design was performed to measure the impact of such exercises on motivation, interest and conceptual understanding. The empirical results on learning…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Homework, Mechanics (Physics)
Bagnoli, Franco; Guarino, Alessio; Pacini, Giovanna – Physics Education, 2019
In this paper we describe the results of some experiments about using surprising physics demonstrations, presented as magical phenomena followed by scientific explanations, for introducing physics topics in several teaching contexts. All the demonstrations have been designed to be implemented with easy to get and cheap materials, so that students…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Science Experiments, Demonstrations (Educational)
Pierratos, Theodoros – Physics Education, 2021
Due to the conditions imposed worldwide by the pandemic, students' access to school laboratories is limited, if not impossible. To provide students with raw experimental data to assess, analyse and reason out, we have filmed experiments that can be used in a flipped classroom. This paper presents an experiment which makes use of an array of six…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Physics, Flipped Classroom, Science Laboratories
Abu, Yuval Ben; Wolfson, Ira; Bran, Gil; Yizhaq, Hezi – Physics Education, 2017
In high-school teaching of mechanics, we deal, among other things, with the nature of static and kinetic friction, forces that are proportional to the normal force. Under the influence of frictional forces, a body moves down a rough sloped decline at a fixed rate of acceleration that is independent of its mass. This situation does not apply to…
Descriptors: Motion, Kinetics, Physics, High School Students