Abstract
The purpose of this study is to investigate the comparative value of performing electricity laboratory by physical, virtual and comprehensive (combination of virtual and physical) methods with respect to changes in students 'conceptual understanding of DC electric circuits and their skills. To achieve these, a pre-post comparison test (DIRECT V1.2) and final skill test that include coordinated tasks of assembling a real circuit and describing how it worked, were used that involved 100 undergraduate students. At the end of the study by means of statistical tests, we observed considerable changes in comprehensive group's learning and virtual group's skill in comparison with the other groups.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 5474-5482 |
| Number of pages | 9 |
| Journal | Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue number | 2 |
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| Publication status | Published - 13 Oct 2010 |
| Externally published | Yes |
| Event | 2nd World Conference on Educational Sciences, WCES-2010 - Istanbul, Turkey Duration: 4 Feb 2010 → 8 Feb 2010 |
Keywords
- comprehensive manipulation
- Conceptual understanding
- electricity laboratory
- physical manipulation
- skill
- virtual manipulation