One semester of ED active learning shifts high-school students' positive attitudes toward physics developing logical thinking by 31.7% and creative thinking by 36.4%¶

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q2 i? ED students' positive attitudes about physics developing logical thinking shifted 31.7% and about creative thinking 36.4% over one semester. → Marušić and Sliško 2014

Evidence¶

Marušić and Sliško 2014¶

Mirko Marušić & Josip Sliško. (2014). High-School Students Believe School Physics Helps in Developing Logical But not Creative Thinking: Active Learning Can Change This Idea. European J of Physics Education, Volume 5 Issue 4. http://www.edpsycinteractive.org/topics/affect/humed.html

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Pre/post study of the ED group (N=85), who covered classical physics topics through predict-observe-explain style experimenting and discussion; the article reports an overall shift of 31.7% for logical thinking and 36.4% for creative thinking.

"In the ED group females (25.9%), and males (41.3%), show positive shifts for the first exploratory question, resulting in an overall positive shift on the post -test of 31.7%."

Discussion¶

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