The Physics Film Project concluded that physics can be taught effectively with the filmed course despite inadequately prepared instructors and ill-equipped laboratories¶

Claim · All claims
Evidence · 1 study · causal r? · q2
Currency · newest study 1959 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q2 i? The project concluded that physics can be taught effectively with the filmed course even though instructors were inadequately prepared and laboratories ill equipped. → Twyford 1959

Evidence¶

Twyford 1959¶

Twyford, L. (1959). Research Abstracts. https://eric.ed.gov

q2 · i? · causal · r?

This is the stated conclusion of the Utah study, which used ten experimental and ten control schools, the Cooperative Physics Test for achievement, and the Strong Vocational Interest Blank for interest; the abstract prints no effect size.

"It was con- cluded that physics can be taught effec- tively with the filmed course."

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

• Medium-ability students showed some tendency to do better in the film-based physics course — a narrower finding that bears on this claim
• In the Utah Physics Film Project, filmed and regular physics instruction showed no differences in large and small schools, but medium-sized schools favored regular instruction — related