Comparing and combining real and virtual experimentation: an effort to enhance students' conceptual understanding of electric circuits.
The purpose of this study was to investigate value of combining Real Experimentation (RE) with Virtual Experimentation (VE) with respect to changes in students' conceptual understanding of electric circuits. To achieve this, a pre-post comparison study design was used that involved 88 undergraduate...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Computer Assisted Learning Vol. 23; no. 2; pp. 120 - 133 |
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| Formato: | clinical trial pictorial research tables/charts Journal Article |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Apr2007
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