Students Designing Their own Experiments on Heat Transfer Phenomena Using Sensors and ICT: An Educational Trial to Consolidate Related Scientific concepts

dc.creator	Denis Vavougios
dc.creator	Charilaos Tsihouridis
dc.creator	George S Ioannidis
dc.date	2009-11-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-07-20T22:46:31Z
dc.date.available	2015-07-20T22:46:31Z
dc.identifier	10.3991/ijet.v4s3.1115
dc.identifier	1863-0383
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/a5bf4f0d13f345d89bad36dc8d09471e
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/23606
dc.description	Following our previous research effort, the present study focuses on a laboratory practice utilizing sensors and ICT, and follows the change in the perceptions students have in relation to the concept of heat transfer. The present paper builds on the experience gained and refines the techniques used. The new sample consists of a larger group of 16-20 year old students, all studying mechanical engineering in a vocational school. A novel and creative research approach was followed. Students were asked to use their experience so as to design, create, calibrate, and use an experimental setup so as to demonstrate heat transfer phenomena. All students used heat sensors and appropriate ICT-systems. Our aim was to improve students’ comprehension concerning heat transfer. The 122 students forming the total sample were split into an experimental group of 64, which is the one that was asked to design, create, calibrate, and subsequently use a school-experiment, while a control group of 58 of student-users only used the experimental set-ups of the experimental group (without any creative design). Both questionnaires and personal interviews were used to collect the research-data. Subsequent data analysis indicates that, when the questions are relevant to the creation of the experimental setup, the experimental group exhibits a higher percentage of correct or partly correct answers in comparison to those of the control group, whereas any differences observed in the rest of the questions lie within the limits of the total measurement errors. The use of ICT-systems in the present educational effort is proving invaluable. Some interesting conclusion are drawn which are discussed herein.
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	kassel university press GmbH
dc.relation	http://online-journals.org/i-jet/article/view/1115
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/1863-0383
dc.rights	CC BY
dc.source	International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET), Vol 4, Iss SI3, Pp 74-82 (2009)
dc.subject	ict
dc.subject	education
dc.subject	sensors
dc.subject	physics
dc.subject	education
dc.subject	physics
dc.subject	teaching
dc.subject	school-lab
dc.subject	experiments
dc.subject	heat
dc.subject	transfer
dc.subject	heat
dc.subject	transport
dc.subject	thermal
dc.subject	conductivity
dc.subject	hands-on
dc.subject	experiments
dc.subject	learning
dc.subject	models
dc.subject	applications
dc.subject	real
dc.subject	world
dc.subject	experiences
dc.subject	Technology (General)
dc.subject	T1-995
dc.subject	Technology
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dc.subject	DOAJ:Technology (General)
dc.subject	DOAJ:Technology and Engineering
dc.subject	Theory and practice of education
dc.subject	LB5-3640
dc.subject	Education
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dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Technology (General)
dc.subject	T1-995
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dc.subject	DOAJ:Technology and Engineering
dc.subject	Theory and practice of education
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dc.subject	Education
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dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
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dc.subject	Theory and practice of education
dc.subject	LB5-3640
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dc.subject	T1-995
dc.subject	Technology
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dc.subject	Theory and practice of education
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dc.subject	Technology (General)
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dc.title	Students Designing Their own Experiments on Heat Transfer Phenomena Using Sensors and ICT: An Educational Trial to Consolidate Related Scientific concepts
dc.type	article