Umpol Jairuk. The use of interactive lecture demonstrations in force and motion to teach high school-level physics . Master's Degree(Science and Technology Education). Mahidol University. : Mahidol University, 2007.
The use of interactive lecture demonstrations in force and motion to teach high school-level physics
Abstract:
This paper presents the results of an experiment using interactive lecture
demonstrations (ILD) in force and motion to teach high-school students. The
microcomputer-based ILD were employed with 132 students at Suthiwararam High
School, Bangkok, in the second semester of the academic year 2004. The ILD,
developed by Thornton and Sokoloff, consists of a sequence of simple physics
experiments on various types of motion. To evaluate this teaching-learning method,
the Force and Motion Conceptual Evaluation (FMCE) test, translated into Thai
language, was given to the students once before the beginning of the course and once
after finishing the ILD. After using the ILD it was found that, in overall, there was a
0.3 normalized gain in student’s performance in 2005 and 0.1 for traditional teaching
in 2004. There were very high gains in acceleration and Newton’s third law of motion.
These results suggest that ILD can indeed help develop high-school students’
conceptual understanding in force and motion.