Teaching University Physics by Using Interactive Science Simulations Methods

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Abstract

This research aimed to study and comparethe achievement of the students of the Faculty of Science and Technology who took the Fundamentals of Physics Course. They were randomized into either the treatment or control grouptaught by Interactive Science Simulations and the traditional methods, respectively. The arithmetic mean and variance of pretest scores of both groups had no statistically significant difference at a level of .05. The examination of Fundamentals of Physics Course was administered to the samplesafter the 15-week experiment. Then, the arithmetic mean of the posttest scores of both groups was compared using thet-test. The results revealed that the treatment and control groups’ percentages of arithmetic mean were 63.46 and 52.41, respectively. Meanwhile, the standard deviations of the former and latter groups were 4.94 and 4.47, respectively. Therefore, the treatment group'sachievement in the Fundamentals of Physics Coursewas significantly higher than the control group at a level of .05.

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Interactive Science Simulations

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