Many high-school students don't want to study physics: active learning experiences can change this negative attitude! A two-question survey has been prepared for and applied in this research with aim to assess the relative efficiency of two different teaching methods, called Reading, Presenting and Questioning (RPQ) and Experimenting and Discussion (ED), in changing students' attitudes toward physics as a potential career choice. The data of a one-semester-long high-school project indicate that RPQ group (91 students) has not achieved a statistically significant improvement in attitudes, while the ED group (85 students) got an improvement of +10,0%. Theses results suggest that the ED method, based on active physics learning paradigm, is a good model for a significant improvement of students' attitudes toward physics as a potential career choice, both with girls and boys who study high school physics. Keywords: active physics learning, predict-observe-explain, observe-explain-predict-observe, physics as a professional choice, gender and physics learning.Uum questionário de duas perguntas foi preparadao e aplicado neste trabalho com o intuito de avaliar a eficiência relativa de dois métodos de aprendizagem, viz. Ler, Apresentar, Questionar (LAQ) e Experimentação, Discussão (ED), em mudar a atitude de estudantes em relaçãoà potencial escolha de física como carreira. Os dados de um projeto de um semestre realizado em nível de ensino médio indica que os grupo LAQ (91 estudantes) não teve uma mudança de atitute estatisticamente signficativa, ao passo que o grupo ED (85 estudantes) teve uma melhora de +10,0%. Estes resultados sugerem que o método ED, baseado em um paradigma de aprendizagem ativa de física,é um bom modelo para se melhorar significativamente a atitude dos estudantes perante a física enquanto uma potencial carreira profissional, independentemente do sexo dos estudantes.
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.
customersupport@researchsolutions.com
10624 S. Eastern Ave., Ste. A-614
Henderson, NV 89052, USA
This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.
Copyright © 2024 scite LLC. All rights reserved.
Made with 💙 for researchers
Part of the Research Solutions Family.