Abstract This study explored the pedagogical beliefs held by South African physics teachers towards inquiry approaches. A significant curriculum goal of school science in most countries is for ...learning to happen through inquiry. A similar goal is expressed in the South African school science curriculum. The findings of a quantitative survey that was administered to 166 teachers showed that teachers reported having a predominantly constructivist pedagogical belief suggesting a tendency to facilitate students’ construct of knowledge through their experiential learning. To a lesser extent, teachers exhibited a traditionalist belief that is teacher-directed and lends itself to transmission of knowledge. In investigating the relationship between pedagogical beliefs and orientation towards inquiry-based teaching, it was found that teachers who have a constructivist belief favour guided inquiry and open inquiry. Teacher who possess a traditionalist beliefs have a tendency for direct epistemic approaches such as didactic direct or active direct.
Microteaching and teaching practice are important and compulsory twin course for any teacher trainee student in Nigeria before becoming a professional teacher. The former pave the way for the later ...and it is intended to prepare teacher trainee for the real teaching practice exercise. This study investigate whether microteaching successfully predict the performance of physics teacher trainees in teaching practice. This investigation is a quantitative research which adopt the ex post facto research design. It involved a cohort of 638 final year Bachelor of Science Education (Physics) students spanning four academic sessions (2015/2016- 2018/2019). The only research question and hypothesis raised were answered and tested using mean/standard deviation and t-test statistics respectively. The result reveal a moderate positive relationship between the performance of physics teacher trainees in microteaching and teaching practice. This study concludes that micro-teaching viably predicted student’s performance in teaching practice.
With the objective of investigating the challenges and contributions presented about the physics teaching-learning process in bilingual schools and special education schools for the deaf, a ...bibliographic review was conducted in the annals of three of the biggest national events that cover physics teaching: the National Symposium on Physics Education (SNEF), the National Meeting of Research in Science Education (ENPEC), and the Meeting on Research in Physics Teaching (EPEF). This was a qualitative study that employed content analysis to analyze the data. Only five articles were found to bring teaching-learning aspects within this context. These five articles were discussed within two emerging categories: (i) the challenges and difficulties in teaching-learning physics in a bilingual school; (ii) the actions and contributions to the teaching-learning of physics in the bilingual school. Recognizing Brazilian Sign Language (Libras) alongside bilingualism pushes the inclusion and teaching-learning process for the deaf to their full potential. In order to overcome some obstacles, including difficulties related to deaf students’ literacy of the written language or educators’ lack of familiarity with signs specific to physics, more significant investments are needed in the production of bilingual material, in addition to creating and spreading signs and educators’ familiarity with deaf culture.
Numerical simulation technology to assist the teaching of university physics is a higher education to continuously adapts to the social development of its own needs. This paper classifies the common ...forms of university physics courses involving numerical computation, explores the current computer simulation in physics teaching, and establishes the development process of the university physics computer numerical computation simulation program. Numerical simulation technology is applied to the design of university physics teaching, and two examples of numerical simulation technology assisting university physics teaching are designed from two cases of grating diffraction intensity distribution and gas diffusion based on Matlab. In Example
= 10, the light intensity distribution of diffraction grating with different slit numbers is analyzed by numerical simulation, and it is obtained that at 1, there are 9 minima between two adjacent main maxima, 8 sub-maxima, and the maximum value is 100, which verifies the theoretical results of the physical derivation of the grating diffraction intensity distribution. In the exposition, mathematical modeling is combined with examples to show that mathematical modeling can greatly exert the role of mathematical ideas in physics teaching, simplify physics teaching, and further cultivate students’ ability to solve practical problems.
One of the requirements in teaching process is to develop the thinking of learners. Thus, how an educator could organize teaching activities in order to enable the critical thinking ability of ...students in high school? Based on the stages of the solving process in the learning process of the student, the expression of critical thinking in each stage, the author would like to suggest educational orientation program following STEM system (STEM activities) in order to develop critical thinking of students. This article analyses the impact of using STEM activities on the development of students in some high schools in mountainous regions in the northern part of Vietnam. The results show the development of critical thinking of students through STEM activities and some superior suggestions for using STEM activities to motivate critical thinking of students in high school.
RESUMEN: El objetivo de esta investigación es caracterizar las percepciones que tienen los estudiantes de enseñanza media de la Región Metropolitana de Santiago de Chile sobre la matematización en ...las clases de física. El estudio se realizó con 1222 estudiantes de enseñanza media a quienes se les aplicó un cuestionario de escala tipo Likert de 36 preguntas, distribuidas en cuatro dimensiones: ciencias naturales, matemática, física y la clase de física. Los resultados muestran que, aunque los participantes del estudio perciben diferencias tangenciales entre la clase de física y la de matemática, consideran que la clase de física es una clase adicional de matemática (matemática aplicada). Estos resultados contribuyen a la formación inicial y continua de profesores de física porque demanda investigar sobre las mejores formas para que las clases transiten por procesos de modelización, formalización y matematización, de manera que los estudiantes puedan desarrollar visiones más cercanas a la naturaleza de la física.
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