A Context-based Teaching Concept on Electric Circuits - Development and First Results

Autor(en)

Benedikt Gottschlich, Jan-Philipp Burde, Thomas Wilhelm, Liza Dopatka, Verena Spatz, Thomas Schubatzky, Claudia Haagen-Schützenhöfer, Lana Ivanjek, Martin Hopf

Abstrakt

Despite the importance of electricity for today's industrial society, students often perceive the abstract topic of electric circuits as uninteresting. In order to foster students' interest, we developed a context-based teaching concept on simple circuits. Building on research findings on students' interests, the concept covers the topic at the example of contexts like bumper cars, the electric eel, or the electric fence. While previous studies suggest that such a context-based approach can improve affective factors such as student interest, the evidence on the impact on students' conceptual understanding is inconclusive. Therefore, we empirically evaluated the teaching concept in a field study with 7th and 8th graders to investigate the effects of context-based teaching on students' conceptual understanding, while also assessing their interest and self-concept. By comparing our concept with conventional teaching in a pre-post-follow-up design, we aim to improve the current state of research regarding the effects of context-based teaching in authentic teaching environments. First analyses did not reveal significant differences between the context-based concept and conventional approaches, neither regarding the affective factors interest and self-concept nor conceptual understanding.

Organisation(en)

Plattform für Didaktik der Naturwissenschaften (AECCs), Experimentelle Grundausbildung und Hochschuldidaktik

Externe Organisation(en)

Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, Technische Universität Dresden, Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck

Journal

Journal of Physics: Conference Series

Band

2750

Anzahl der Seiten

11

ISSN

1742-6588

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/2750/1/012010

Publikationsdatum

2024

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

503013 Fachdidaktik Naturwissenschaften

Schlagwörter

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