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Five ways of assigning problem tasks within interactive lessons

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Description

Within the P&E method each problem task can be assigned in five ways, summarised in Table 1: text solved theoretically; text solved via a real or computer-aided experiment; an unfinished experiment/video-experiment/simulation where students predict the result and the experiment is then carried out to verify the theory; a finished experiment whose physical course or result must be reasoned theoretically; and a finished experiment solved via video-analysis. The authors report that "various variations of problem task solving influence students very positively", teaching them that a problem can be assigned and solved in different ways and that a procedure effective in one case need not be effective in another.

Design Implications

Context

Requirements

  • Students' worksheets and teachers' guidelines created for each way of problem task assignment

Constraints

  • Assignment formats rely on available experiments, video-experiments, simulations and applets

Target Learners

  • first-year university physics students

Learning Goals

  • physical reasoning and analysis of phenomena
  • flexibility in problem-solving procedures
  • connecting formalism to everyday life

Claims

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Key Sources

  • Krišťák, Ľ., Němec, M., Danihelová, Z. (2014). Interactive Methods of Teaching Physics at Technical Universities. Informatics in Education, 13(1), 51–71. https://doi.org/10.15388/infedu.2014.03
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title Five ways of assigning problem tasks within interactive lessons
description Within the P&E method each problem task can be assigned in five ways, summarised in Table 1: text solved theoretically; text solved via a real or computer-aided experiment; an unfinished experiment/video-experiment/si...
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