Mr
Itumeleng Phage
(Honorary)
02/10/2018, 17:00
Track D - Teaching and Learning of Physics Concepts
Poster Presentation
Students at tertiary level seem not to be able to relate their Mathematical understanding of graphs with graphs in Physics especially from Kinematics concepts. This has resulted in most students being unable to understand and interpret Kinematics Graphs or present a clear graphical report from their Lab experiments and interpret them.
Mathematics is an essential tool in studying physics,...
Prof.
ZUWEI YAN
(College of Science, Inner Mongolia Agricultural University, Hohhot 010018, PR China)
02/10/2018, 17:01
Track A - Physics at University
Poster Presentation
In a conventional solid state physics teaching material, the optical phonon mode and its interaction with electrons is an important problem[1, 2]. It is usually used to solve the optical phonon model by using the Born-Huang equation[3] and obtain the Hamiltonian of electron and phonon interaction for bulk material. But multi-layer systems of polar semiconductors, it is well known that the...
Dr
Guillaume Schiltz
(ETH Zurich)
02/10/2018, 17:02
Track A - Physics at University
Poster Presentation
In the past, many large physics lectures have been reformed and supplemented by active learning elements such as Peer Instruction [1]. A different approach consists of breaking up large lectures into smaller classes and shifting to highly interactive flipped learning settings. Studio Physics and SCALE-UP are well-documented implementations of this approach [2]. Running multiple parallel...
Dr
Mark Herbert
(University of the Western Cape)
02/10/2018, 17:03
Track H - Teacher Education and Training in Physics
Poster Presentation
Since the mid-nineties, South Africa schools have been in a state of education reform. At the centre of the reform was the establishment of the comprehensive curriculum project named Curriculum 2005. Deficiency in the Curriculum 2005 resulted in the establishment of the National Curriculum Statement in 2008. Curriculum reform as required by the National Curriculum Statement for grade 10-12...
Prof.
Xixia Liang
(Inner Mongolia University, China)
02/10/2018, 17:04
Track D - Teaching and Learning of Physics Concepts
Poster Presentation
As a course of theoretical physics, “thermodynamics and statistical physics” is often complained hard to learn and teach by some university students and teachers in China. To a certain extent it is related to the current knowledge system of the course, in which the macroscopic theory-“thermodynamics” and microscopic theory - “statistical physics” are separated from each other [1,2]. Students...
Ms
Amy Bray
(Rhodes University)
02/10/2018, 17:06
Track A - Physics at University
Poster Presentation
The South African Institute of Physics and the Council on Higher Education
identified that there are many challenges associated with physics teaching and learning. We report on the results of a pilot study that attempted to identify the perceptions of first-year students studying physics at Rhodes University in 2017. Academics were interviewed, a questionnaire was created and a survey of...
Dr
Jan Riha
(Palacky University in Olomouc, Faculty of Science)
, Dr
Lukas Richterek
(Palacky University in Olomouc, Faculty of Science)
02/10/2018, 17:26
Track A - Physics at University
Poster Presentation
The Buquoy problem represents an interesting example of a one-dimensional motion of a uniform thin fibre which is pulled upwards from a horizontal plane by a constant vertical force exerted against the homogeneous gravitational field. The solution of the problem includes several interesting concepts that are often developed within the introductory university physics course – a motion with a...
Dr
Mikael Maior de Sousa
(Universidade Federal de Roraima)
02/10/2018, 17:27
Track A - Physics at University
Poster Presentation
In 1977, Shifman, Vainshtein, Zakharov, Novikov, Okun and Voloshin created the successful method of QCD sum rules (QCDSR), which is widely used nowadays. With this method, we can calculate many hadron parameters such as: mass of the hadron, decay constant, coupling constant and form factors in terms of the QCD parameters as for example: quark masses, the strong coupling and nonperturbative...
Dr
MIchael Gastro
(Human Sciences Research Council)
, Dr
Wanda Diaz Merced
(Office of Astronomy for Development)
02/10/2018, 17:28
Track G - Assessment and Evaluation of Teaching and Learning in Physics
Poster Presentation
Globally the percentage of disabled and impaired learners completing school is suboptimal when compared to abled peers. School incompletion detains the progress to Higher Education and in many cases to longer term contributions to the economy once in the work-field. The situation worse in the natural and branching sciences specially if heavily based on mathematics or visualisations like...
Dr
Nicola Pizzolato
(Istituto di Istruzione Superiore "Pio La Torre")
02/10/2018, 17:30
Track J - Physics in an Informal and Non-Formal Environment
Poster Presentation
Scientific literacy is a main target and recommendation of many National Standards of Education around the world, strongly convinced that a scientific culture can foster the development of better and safely lives. Teaching physics has the general objective of providing the learners with an adequate wealth of knowledge, in terms of both interdisciplinary scientific concepts and practical...
Dr
Dominique Persano Adorno
(Dipartimento di Fisica e Chimica, Università degli Studi di Palermo)
02/10/2018, 17:31
Track H - Teacher Education and Training in Physics
Poster Presentation
The “Open Discovery of STEM Laboratories” (ODL) project, funded by the European Erasmus+ KA2 program (Cooperation for Innovation and the Exchange of Good Practices - Strategic Partnerships for school education) for 30 months, starting from November 2015, was aimed at introducing the use of MOOCs in school curricula. In particular, it fostered teacher collaboration in creating and using...
Dr
Vera Montalbano
(Department of Physical Sciences, Earth and Environment, University of Siena)
02/10/2018, 17:32
Track I - Physics and Interdisciplinary Issues
Poster Presentation
A learning path in an initial class of a vocational school in wellness is presented. The challenge was to engage students, whose interests were very far from science, in an active exploration on how a body can be measured. Students discovered the existence of uncertainties linked to the process of measurement and explored how they could be minimized.
Despite selected physics topics are...
Dr
Nicola Pizzolato
(Istituto di Istruzione Superiore "Pio La Torre", Palermo, Italy)
02/10/2018, 17:33
Track I - Physics and Interdisciplinary Issues
Poster Presentation
The “E3D+VET” (Erasmus+ for the immersion in 3D printing of VET centres) is a project supported by the European Commission through the Erasmus+ programme, Key Action 2 - Strategic Partnership for vocational education and training on Development of Innovation. The aim of the project is to develop educational tools for the VET system, which will provide new competences to both teachers and...
Mr
Lucas de Abreu Kasprik
(Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná - UTFPR)
02/10/2018, 17:35
Track I - Physics and Interdisciplinary Issues
Poster Presentation
The study of the ancient Mesopotamian units of measurement and the mathematics involved in it provides several components that could be used for physics, mathematics and history of science teaching. Studying the known clay tablets it is possible to learn their mathematics, how the art of teaching started, how the first numbers were represented and what were their purposes, as the ancient...
Mr
Minoru SATO
(Tokai University)
02/10/2018, 17:36
Track G - Assessment and Evaluation of Teaching and Learning in Physics
Poster Presentation
Schematic diagrams representing physical concepts do not necessarily define how to draw. For example, arrows are used for the various meaning in physics education. There is a possibility that the learner who saw the schematic diagrams containing arrows does interpretation different from the true intention by which they were drawn. The confusion of learners formed by the disagreement of such...
Dr
Maykon Müller
(Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia Sul-rio-grandense)
02/10/2018, 17:37
Track H - Teacher Education and Training in Physics
Poster Presentation
We live in a world widely influenced by Science, being perceptible its action in several areas of life. This overvaluation develops naive beliefs about the nature of Science and scientific work, impacting on science teaching that, after the end of the 50's, aimed to train student as "little scientists" through the scientific method. However, many studies in the fields of History, Philosophy...
Ms
Silvia SQUILLA
(Consejo de Formación en Educación, ANEP, Uruguay)
02/10/2018, 17:38
Track B - Physics at Primary and Secondary School Level
Poster Presentation
Science education in primary schools in Uruguay is still a pending task. Frequently, only biological science is taught in class and concerning Physics, topics like light and energy are the most commonly studied. Often activities, even in biology, are reduced either to look for information without experimentation, or very guided experimental activities with little space for actual research...
Mr
Alysson Mateus Rabelo Kiessow Rabelo
(UFPR)
, Prof.
Mara Fernanda Parisoto
(Parisoto)
02/10/2018, 17:39
Track L - Other (Please elaborate under comments below)
Poster Presentation
Although Project Methodology is known to be an effective tool in teaching physical concepts while at the same time fostering essential skills, it received surprisingly little academic interest over the last years. For this comprehensive review of research published on Project Methodology and closely related didactic methods during the years 2000 to 2013, we looked at the 26 international and...
Prof.
Mara Fernanda Parisoto
(UFPR)
02/10/2018, 17:40
Track H - Teacher Education and Training in Physics
Poster Presentation
In this article, we share some of our experiences and lessons learned from a practical implementation of Carl Roger’s approach of Project Based Learning, as well as, we discuss the Ausubel’s principles of “meaningful learning”, which underlies this theory, in a situation involving future High School maths teachers. Our declared goal was to train and encourage these students, who often worked...
Prof.
Mara Fernanda Parisoto
(UFPR)
02/10/2018, 17:41
Track H - Teacher Education and Training in Physics
Poster Presentation
Potentially meaningful materials were developed to promote meaningful learning of concepts of physics applied to medicine. They were used in implementations with four different groups of students, and the implementations were modified according to the needs and wants of each situation. The didactic proposal involved experimental activities, simulation and computational modeling,...
Dr
Mara Fernanda Parisoto
(UFPR)
02/10/2018, 17:42
Track J - Physics in an Informal and Non-Formal Environment
Poster Presentation
This paper seeks to present new methodologies aimed at maintaining the number of students in the undergraduate programs in areas related to the exact sciences, with the intention of gradually increasing the quantity of qualified professionals who work in the areas encompassed by these courses. This line of research demonstrates its importance at a moment in which the dropout rate from...
Dr
Vera Montalbano
(Department of Physical Sciences, Earth and Environment, University of Siena)
02/10/2018, 17:43
Track I - Physics and Interdisciplinary Issues
Poster Presentation
How to prepare and implement effective in-service teacher training program to promote teachers’ professional development? Despite many actions promoted by national and local administrators in order to enhance the quality of science education in the secondary school, the most effective experiences inspired by science educational research remain isolated and find it hard to spread into the ...
Prof.
Naoshi Takahashi
(Kagwa University, Japan)
02/10/2018, 17:44
Track E - Teaching and Learning of Laboratory based Physics
Poster Presentation
We have demonstrated a new use of technology which is based on a conventional thermography to show the heat transfer of water. Our main purpose of the research was focused to the development of science class lob in primary school. After then we could expand some teaching materials and ideas to some national and public primary schools.
Nowadays we found that our students subject to...
Mr
Mphiriseni Khwanda
(UJ)
02/10/2018, 17:45
Track D - Teaching and Learning of Physics Concepts
Poster Presentation
One of the topics that is regarded as challenging to learn for conceptual understanding by students from secondary to tertiary levels is simple electric circuits. The topic is said to be challenging to learn for qualitative understanding due to the presence of misconceptions brought by or derived from every day prior experiences about the topic. In literature, the word “misconception” is...
Mr
Pernel NGUENANG NGANYO
(student)
02/10/2018, 17:46
Track A - Physics at University
Poster Presentation
We study a novel model of Josephson junction and investigate the appearance of tunnelling current. Using quantization technique, we prove the junction to be modelled as a two-level system where the tunnelling current is induced by the Landau - Zener transition. We prove that, the current passing through the junction is caused by LZ tunnelling with the nature of that probability current...
Dr
FERNANDA BOZELLI
(UNESP/FEIS)
02/10/2018, 17:47
Track B - Physics at Primary and Secondary School Level
Poster Presentation
This research aimed to investigate high school students’ discourse about Physics class and its relations to the school context. To achieve our purpose, we invited students from a public state high school of the countryside of São Paulo state, Brazil, to participate of debate groups on the theme “Physics class”. We organized three meetings with different groups, one with freshmen students and...
Dr
Vera MONTALBANO
(Department of Physical Sciences, Earth and Environment, University of Siena)
02/10/2018, 17:48
Track I - Physics and Interdisciplinary Issues
Poster Presentation
An active learning path was carried out directly by students in a vocational school by following a cooperative-learning approach. At the beginning of the school, some students showed relationship problems and formed small groups that, in some cases, led to the exclusion of pupils with special educational needs. These problems, coming from a quite diversified socio-cultural context, were...
Dr
Sa'adatu Abubakar
(Tafawa Balewa University, Bauchi State Nigeria)
02/10/2018, 17:49
Track D - Teaching and Learning of Physics Concepts
Poster Presentation
It is pertinent to consider appropriate alternatives means of imparting knowledge so as to defend quality science teaching and learning from going into extinction when the need arises. Among these alternative is the use of problem-solving strategies that involve different problem-solving activities like learning through open ended such as problem posing. Problem posing improves students’...
Dr
Lynndle Square
(University of the Western Cape)
02/10/2018, 17:49
Track A - Physics at University
Poster Presentation
'Flipped learning’ or ‘flipped classroom’ pedagogies are gaining prominence in undergraduate science learning [1]. With the growing access to information through the internet, the traditional model of the teacher as the only facilitator of knowledge has become inadequate [2]. Lage et al [3] considers the key purpose of the flipped classroom to be to shift the focus from rote learning to the...
Dr
Jeff Wiener
(CERN)
02/10/2018, 17:50
Track D - Teaching and Learning of Physics Concepts
Poster Presentation
When introducing the Standard Model of particle physics at secondary level, high-school teachers and students are faced with various abstract concepts and lots of novel terms. Among the many challenging terms is the infamous “particle zoo”, which stems from the early days of particle physics, when every newly discovered hadron was believed to be a distinct elementary particle. Since then, the...
Dr
Ary Leonel André
(Federal University of Santa Catarina)
02/10/2018, 17:51
Track F - ICT and Multimedia Revolution in Physics Education
Poster Presentation
From the potential of the virtual education to a powerful ally in the teaching-learning process: digital technologies, which despite its potential brings with it great challenges, due to the plurality of resources and innovations provided by it. Students and teachers are surrounded by technologies that cause interest and, consequently, the use of these novelties begins to intensify, then...
Dr
Sam Ramaila
(University of Johannesburg)
02/10/2018, 17:52
Track B - Physics at Primary and Secondary School Level
Poster Presentation
Meaningful curriculum reform is central to the provision and acquisition of globally relevant scientific skills. A globally competitive curriculum fosters the cultivation of skills required for sustainable economic growth and development. In addition, it is imperative to harness the affordances associated with the provision of intellectually stimulating school physics curriculum content in...
Dr
Femi Otulaja
(University of the Witwatersrand)
02/10/2018, 17:53
Track H - Teacher Education and Training in Physics
Poster Presentation
mThe goal of this conceptualization is to explore how physics educators can integrate indigenous knowledge into their teaching of physics concepts in the science classroom whether at the secondary or tertiary level of education. The facts remains that African history has constantly affirmed the existence of the knowledge of physical sciences among indigenous people of African origin wherever...
Prof.
Kevin Goldstein
(University of the Witwatersrand)
02/10/2018, 17:54
Track D - Teaching and Learning of Physics Concepts
Poster Presentation
The Force Concept Inventory (FCI) pretest [1] comprising of 30 multiple choice questions was administered at the commencement of the academic year to ~950 First-Year Engineering students registered for a full-year Mechanics course. The purpose of the diagnostic assessment was to acquire information on students’ prior knowledge of their understanding of basics concepts of Newtonian Mechanics....
Dr
Leelakrishna Reddy
(University of Johannesburg)
02/10/2018, 17:55
Track A - Physics at University
Poster Presentation
Meaningful development of scientific literacy is underpinned by coherent acquisition of scientific skills. The development of physics knowledge in particular hinges to a large degree on cognitive and affective factors. In light of this key imperative, students’ perceptions of physics as a fundamental discipline were established through the administration of Physics Anxiety Questionnaire with...
Prof.
Manjula Sharma
(The University of Sydney)
02/10/2018, 17:56
Track E - Teaching and Learning of Laboratory based Physics
Poster Presentation
Introduction
Students’ emotional engagement is one of the important factors to be considered in Physics Education Research. Our study aims to investigate the role of colour, and the inclusion of a history of science context in generating students’ emotional engagement (Stinner, 1993). We have tried to engage students emotionally with thermal physics through an experiment.
Research...
Prof.
Manjula Sharma
(The University of Sydney)
02/10/2018, 18:01
Track E - Teaching and Learning of Laboratory based Physics
Poster Presentation
This paper explores whether the integration of digital technologies in the form of a spreadsheet can be used to improve students’ engagement with experimental work. In addition, the experiment was presented as an open inquiry investigation. The experiment, investigation was about electricity and power consumption, Vampire Power. Using Design-Based Research methodology, in Trial 1 we ran an...
