| |
 |
UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST
FACULTY OF PHYSICS Guest
2024-11-22 1:23 |
 |
|
|
|
Conference: Bucharest University Faculty of Physics 2010 Meeting
Section: Educational Physics
Title:
New tendencies: promotion of didactic methods that favour the increase of students`interest and motivation for studying Physics
Authors:
Luminita Dinescu, Cristina Miron, E. S. Barna
Affiliation:
University of Bucharest, Faculty of Physics, P.O.BOX.MG-11, Bucharest, Romania
E-mail
dinesculuminita@yahoo.com
Keywords:
interest, motivation, differentiated instruction, efficiency in learning Physics
Abstract:
Studies carried out in Europe - "Mapping Physics Students in Europe", "Europe needs more scientists", "Science Education Now: A renewed Pedagogy for the Future of Europe"-show an alarming decline of the interest in and motivation for the study of sciences in general, of Physics in particular. Unfortunately, this descending tendency is also confirmed in Romania. These studies indicate as a possible cause, besides social and economical factors, an old-fashioned approach of the teaching-learning process, for example "chalk and talk" method. Therefore it is recommended the use of some didactic methods adapted to each student`s knowledge level, style and rhythm. In this paper we present a pedagogical experiment conducted in Bucharest, in which 150 students from 6th and 9th grade were involved. The results of this experiment confirm the hypothesis of the research: differentiated instruction according to the student`s readiness and learning profile can lead to a significant increase of the efficiency in learning Physics and implicitly to an increase of the interest in and motivation for the study of this subject.
|
|
|
|