A study on the impact of real, virtual and comprehensive experimenting on students’ conceptual understanding of DC electric circuits and their skills in undergraduate electricity laboratory

Mohammadreza Farrokhnia; Ayoub Esmailpour

doi:10.1016/j.sbspro.2010.03.893

A study on the impact of real, virtual and comprehensive experimenting on students’ conceptual understanding of DC electric circuits and their skills in undergraduate electricity laboratory

Mohammadreza Farrokhnia
, Ayoub Esmailpour

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The purpose of this study is to investigate the comparative value of performing electricity laboratory by physical, virtual and comprehensive (combination of virtual and physical) methods with respect to changes in students ‘conceptual understanding of DC electric circuits and their skills. To achieve these, a pre–post comparison test (DIRECT V1.2) and final skill test that include coordinated tasks of assembling a real circuit and describing how it worked, were used that involved 100 undergraduate students. At the end of the study by means of statistical tests, we observed considerable changes in comprehensive group's learning and virtual group's skill in comparison with the other groups.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	5474–5482
Number of pages	9
Journal	Procedia: social and behavioral sciences
Volume	2
Issue number	2
Early online date	6 May 2010
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sbspro.2010.03.893 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sbspro.2010.03.893
Publication status	Published - 2010
Externally published	Yes
Event	2nd World Conference on Educational Sciences, WCES 2010 - Istanbul, Turkey Duration: 4 Feb 2010 → 8 Feb 2010 Conference number: 2

Keywords

Conceptual understanding
skill
electricity laboratory
physical manipulation
virtual manipulation
comprehensive manipulation

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Farrokhnia, M., & Esmailpour, A. (2010). A study on the impact of real, virtual and comprehensive experimenting on students’ conceptual understanding of DC electric circuits and their skills in undergraduate electricity laboratory. Procedia: social and behavioral sciences, 2(2), 5474–5482. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sbspro.2010.03.893, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sbspro.2010.03.893

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Farrokhnia, M & Esmailpour, A 2010, 'A study on the impact of real, virtual and comprehensive experimenting on students’ conceptual understanding of DC electric circuits and their skills in undergraduate electricity laboratory', Procedia: social and behavioral sciences, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 5474–5482. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sbspro.2010.03.893, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sbspro.2010.03.893

A study on the impact of real, virtual and comprehensive experimenting on students’ conceptual understanding of DC electric circuits and their skills in undergraduate electricity laboratory. / Farrokhnia, Mohammadreza; Esmailpour, Ayoub.
In: Procedia: social and behavioral sciences, Vol. 2, No. 2, 2010, p. 5474–5482.

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A study on the impact of real, virtual and comprehensive experimenting on students’ conceptual understanding of DC electric circuits and their skills in undergraduate electricity laboratory

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