Circuitos Elétricos: a 4C/ID-based digital learning environment for 9th-grade electrical circuits¶
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Evidence · 4 claims (4 for) · 1 study (1 causal),q2· 0 of 1 report an effect size · 4 claims rest on one study
Description¶
Circuitos Elétricos is a digital learning environment built with Adobe Flash CS3 Professional, working on MacOS and Windows, structured in three lessons: electric current and conductivity, circuit symbols and representation, and series and parallel circuits. Tasks fade from a modeling example with maximum guidance to completion problems to conventional problems, followed by part-task practice, with supportive information videos, cognitive feedback and corrective feedback messages. The article reports "The digital educational resource was built with Adobe Flash ® CS3 Professional and it works both in MacOS and Windows environments".
Design Implications¶
Context¶
Requirements¶
- Supportive information videos followed multimedia principles: irrelevant sounds, words and images eliminated, simultaneous text and images, and narrated words
Constraints¶
- Procedural information was focused only on corrective feedback, considering the participants' age and the kind of content taught
Target Learners¶
- 9th-grade compulsory education physics students
Learning Goals¶
- Analysing simple electrical circuits, including series and parallel circuit characteristics
Claims¶
- A companion quasi-experimental study attributed greater performance and lower perceived mental effort to the 4C/ID digital environment, especially on transfer [+M]
- 9th-grade students taught electrical circuits with a 4C/ID-based digital learning environment performed better on a learning transfer test than students taught by conventional teacher-centred instruction [+M]
- The advantage of the 4C/ID-based environment over conventional instruction was much larger on learning transfer than on knowledge reproduction [+M]
- During training sessions, experimental-group students were more focused and autonomous while control-group students were more dispersed and often did not complete transfer tasks [+W]
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Key Sources¶
- Melo, M. (2018). The 4C/ID-Model in Physics Education: Instructional Design of a Digital Learning Environment to Teach Electrical Circuits. International Journal of Instruction, 11(1), 103-122. https://doi.org/10.12973/iji.2018.1118a
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Circuitos Elétricos: a 4C/ID-based digital learning environment for 9th-grade electrical circuits |
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Circuitos Elétricos is a digital learning environment built with Adobe Flash CS3 Professional, working on MacOS and Windows, structured in three lessons: electric current and conductivity, circuit symbols and represen... |
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