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Holmes, N. G.; Kumar, Dhaneesh; Bonn, D. A. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2017
Developing critical thinking skills is a common goal of an undergraduate physics curriculum. How do students make sense of evidence and what do they do with it? In this study, we evaluated students' critical thinking behaviors through their written notebooks in an introductory physics laboratory course. We compared student behaviors in the…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Cues, Instructional Effectiveness, Thinking Skills
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Guzel, Hatice – Educational Research and Reviews, 2016
The purpose of this research was to examine and compare the effect of teaching the brightness of lamps, which is a topic for grade 11 physics lesson, on student achievement and attitude according to the 5E model belonging to the constructivist learning theory and the traditional teaching method. The research was conducted on 62 11th grade students…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Grade 11, Secondary School Science
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Unlu, Zeynep Koyunlu; Dokme, Ibilge – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2011
The purpose of this study was to investigate whether the combination of both analogy-based simulation and laboratory activities as a teaching tool was more effective than utilizing them separately in teaching the concepts of simple electricity. The quasi-experimental design that involved 66 seventh grade students from urban Turkish elementary…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Elementary School Students, Quasiexperimental Design
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Bayrak, Bekir; Kanli, Uygar; Kandil Ingeç, Sebnem – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2007
In this study, the research problem was: "Is the computer based physics instruction as effective as laboratory intensive physics instruction with regards to academic success on electric circuits 9th grade students?" For this research of experimental quality the design of pre-test and post-test are applied with an experiment and a control…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Control Groups, Experimental Groups, Student Attitudes
Bayrak, Bekir; Kanli, Uygar; Ingec, Sebnem Kandil – Online Submission, 2007
In this study, the research problem was: "Is the computer based physics instruction as effective as laboratory intensive physics instruction with regards to academic success on electric circuits 9th grade students?" For this research of experimental quality the design of pre-test and post-test are applied with an experiment and a control…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Student Attitudes, Academic Achievement, Physics
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Yesilyurt, Mustafa – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2004
In this study an attitude questionnaire was developed and applied to identify student teachers' interests and attitudes for basic physics laboratory. In physics laboratory practices run by a higher education institution a new attitude questionnaire was developed and applied twice in two terms by researchers to increase student teachers' success…
Descriptors: Student Teacher Attitudes, Science Instruction, Physics, Laboratory Experiments