An evaluation tool for physics applets
Physics applets are well known appealing resources for teaching and learning physics, and there is a lot of them available on the Internet. Nevertheless, not all of them are of the same quality as such resources nor fit every specific teaching/learning purpose. The start question was why we teachers...
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| description | Physics applets are well known appealing resources for teaching and learning physics, and there is a lot of them available on the Internet. Nevertheless, not all of them are of the same quality as such resources nor fit every specific teaching/learning purpose. The start question was why we teachers or lecturers like a given applet or not, and the answer should be based on practical evaluations of applets from the Internet, taking quality evaluation criteria already published into account. In this way, an evaluation tool was developed as a rubric which draws attention to the different aspects of an applet that are relevant for teaching or learning a physics topic, grouped into five categories. Each category is given a separate scoring based on a preparatory qualitative evaluation of the aforementioned aspects. This evaluation tool has been tested on five physics applets by four secondary-school teachers as experts in first-year students’ background. The results show the suitability degree of each of these applets as resources for different teaching/learning environments, as well as the suitability of the evaluation tool itself, which simplifies the interchange of information on physics applets among teachers and lecturers. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-1bd518c268b046b5be8c2b8022bd3f4f2022-12-22T01:17:57ZengOmniaScienceJournal of Technology and Science Education2013-63742016-03-0161365110.3926/jotse.17297An evaluation tool for physics appletsArcadi Pejuan0Xavier Bohigas1Xavier Jaén2Universitat Politècnica de CatalunyaUniversitat Politècnica de CatalunyaUniversitat Politècnica de CatalunyaPhysics applets are well known appealing resources for teaching and learning physics, and there is a lot of them available on the Internet. Nevertheless, not all of them are of the same quality as such resources nor fit every specific teaching/learning purpose. The start question was why we teachers or lecturers like a given applet or not, and the answer should be based on practical evaluations of applets from the Internet, taking quality evaluation criteria already published into account. In this way, an evaluation tool was developed as a rubric which draws attention to the different aspects of an applet that are relevant for teaching or learning a physics topic, grouped into five categories. Each category is given a separate scoring based on a preparatory qualitative evaluation of the aforementioned aspects. This evaluation tool has been tested on five physics applets by four secondary-school teachers as experts in first-year students’ background. The results show the suitability degree of each of these applets as resources for different teaching/learning environments, as well as the suitability of the evaluation tool itself, which simplifies the interchange of information on physics applets among teachers and lecturers.http://www.jotse.org/index.php/jotse/article/view/172multimedia, simulations, applets, physics applets, applet evaluation criteria |
| spellingShingle | Arcadi Pejuan Xavier Bohigas Xavier Jaén An evaluation tool for physics applets Journal of Technology and Science Education multimedia, simulations, applets, physics applets, applet evaluation criteria |
| title | An evaluation tool for physics applets |
| title_full | An evaluation tool for physics applets |
| title_fullStr | An evaluation tool for physics applets |
| title_full_unstemmed | An evaluation tool for physics applets |
| title_short | An evaluation tool for physics applets |
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| topic | multimedia, simulations, applets, physics applets, applet evaluation criteria |
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