Improving students’ understanding by using on-going education research to refine active learning activities in a first-year electronics course

Mazzolini, Alexander Peter and Daniel, Scott Arthur (2015) Improving students’ understanding by using on-going education research to refine active learning activities in a first-year electronics course. Il nuovo cimento C, 38 (3). pp. 1-10. ISSN 1826-9885

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Abstract

Interactive Lecture Demonstrations (ILDs) have been used across introductory university physics as a successful active learning (AL) strategy to improve students’ conceptual understanding. We have developed ILDs for more complex topics in our first-year electronics course. In 2006 we began developing ILDs to improve students’ conceptual understanding of Operational Amplifiers (OAs) and negative feedback in amplification circuits. The ILDs were used after traditional lecture instruction to help students consolidate their understanding. We developed a diagnostic test, to be administered to students both before and after the ILDs, as a measure of how effective the ILDs were in improving students’ understanding.

Item Type: Article
Subjects: 500 Scienze naturali e Matematica > 530 Fisica
Depositing User: Marina Spanti
Date Deposited: 28 May 2020 15:55
Last Modified: 28 May 2020 15:55
URI: http://eprints.bice.rm.cnr.it/id/eprint/19053

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