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| Research Title |
A Two-phase Study of Investigating Lao PDR Preservice Physics Teachers’ Perceptions toward the Use of Computer Simulation in Physics Education |
| Date of Distribution |
28 November 2016 |
| Conference |
| Title of the Conference |
The 24th International Conference on Computers In Education |
| Organiser |
Asia-Pacific Society for Computers in Education (APSCE) |
| Conference Place |
IIT Bombay, Mumbai India |
| Province/State |
Mumbai India |
| Conference Date |
28 November 2016 |
| To |
2 December 2016 |
| Proceeding Paper |
| Volume |
2016 |
| Issue |
1 |
| Page |
69-77 |
| Editors/edition/publisher |
Publisher: Asia-Pacific Society for Computers in Education |
| Abstract |
The teaching of physics in Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR), generally, offers conceptual ideas to students by using mathematical equations, rather than core ideas of physics. Many researchers reported that this way of instruction made students memorization of scientific facts, rather than understand its concepts, and they may have no motivation to learn physics. According to the mentioned problem, this paper reported a two-phase study investigating preservice physics teachers’ prior conceptual understanding and physics motivation, and perceptions toward simulation-based learning in physics of electricity. The participants were 32 sophomore students in Department of Physics, Faculty of Education, Savannakhet University, Lao PDR. In phase I, they were investigated preconception of electricity concepts and their physics motivation using 12 two-tier multiple- choice items and 25 items of 5-point rating scale, respectively, and it was observed that the preservice physics teachers held many misunderstanding about electricity and they had low level of physics motivation. In phase II, they were, then, examined their perceptions toward the use of computer simulation for physics learning after interacting in a simulation-based inquiry learning activity, and it was examined that they expressed positive perception on the learning, where the highest perception scores were on enjoyment (E), perceive of usefulness (PU), perceive of satisfaction (PS), perceive learning (PL), Flow (FL), and perceive ease of use (PEU), respectively. Moreover, the qualitative results showed that they can interact with computer simulation and learn physics concepts of electricity from the activity. The main implications of this study is the rethinking of pedagogy used for teaching physics of electricity in order to improving the preservice physics teachers’ conceptual understanding, fostering their physics motivation, and enhancing pedagogical ideas and performance on how to teach physics with computer simulation |
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มีผู้ประเมินอิสระ |
| Level of Conference |
นานาชาติ |
| Type of Proceeding |
Full paper |
| Type of Presentation |
Oral |
| Part of thesis |
true |
| Presentation awarding |
false |
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