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Il modulo "Meccanica Statistica e Struttura della Materia"
2010
INQUIRY BASED LEARNING EXPERIENCES ON THERMAL PHENOMENA FROM SECONDARY SCHOOL TO UNIVERSITY: MOTIVATIONAL ASPECTS, CONCEPTUAL KNOWLEDGE, AND NATURE O…
2014
An Inquiry-Based Approach to Physics Teacher Education: the Case of Sound Properties
2014
In this paper we describe some results of an experimentation on Pre-Service Physics Teacher Education performed with a group of non-Italian Trainee Teachers engaged in one-month mobility activities at University of Palermo, in the framework of the EU Project “Move’in Science”. Some preliminary results of the experimentation of a Teaching/Learning Unit about Mechanical Wave propagation are presented, with particular reference to mental models about wave propagation evidenced by Trainee Teachers. Their understanding of the relevance of pupils’ mental model knowledge, in the framework of what a teacher should do to be an “effective” teacher, is also discussed.
Challenges in Primary and Secondary Science Teachers Education and Training
2010
The Girep Seminar of 2003 made an important contribution to the problem of Quality Development of Teacher Education and Training, following the Barcellona Girep Conference of 2000 on Physics Teacher Education Beyond 2000. A number of important problems are still unresolved and a broad research study has been carried out and documented (Abell, 2007). Group 3 of the EU-Project STEPS2 is now dealing with this topic and discussing the main open problems. The Symposium will contribute by analyzing and discussing some of the main problems of teacher education and training in physics both with an institutional perspective, and in relation to curriculum through updating and school reform. The study…
An Inquiry-Based Approach to a Pedagogical Laboratory for Primary School Teacher Education
2017
In questo articolo vengono presentati e di- scussi alcuni risultati relativi alla sperimen- tazione di due esperienze di didattica laboratoriale della fisica, una basata su me- todi di indagine scientifica e l’altra su meto- dologie didattiche più “tradizionali”, svolte durante l’A.A. 2014-15 con studenti del CdL in Scienze della Formazione Primaria del- l’Università di Palermo. I dati, analizzati tra- mite metodi quantitativi, sono stati ricavati dalla somministrazione prima, durante e do- po le attività laboratoriali, di un questionario finalizzato a comprendere gli stili di insegna- mento preferiti dagli studenti, la motivazio- ne di questi all’apprendimento/insegna- mento delle scienze …
Multidimensional Scaling in Cluster Analysis: examples in Science and Mathematics Education
2021
Several researches in STEM education research highlight the advantages of an inte- grated approach to these disciplines that relates knowledge and know-how, design and implementation, theoretical and practical problems [5, 4, 6]. In some researches, the effectiveness of these approaches on students conceptual understanding and motivation and has been studied through the use of quantitative analysis tools such as cluster analysis (CLA) [1, 7]. Through CLA it is possible to characterize students analyzing the strategies they deploy to tackle, for example, questionnaires built so as to investigate the lines of reasoning implemented by them when they are proposed with problematic situations. In…
A Phenomenological Study About the Effect of Covid-19 Pandemic on the Use of Teaching Resources in Mathematics
2023
In this contribution, we discuss phenomenological research related to a pilot study carried out by the Consortium of the MaTeK Horizon 2020 project during the 2020–21 academic year. The research aims to analyse the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on the use of teaching resources in mathematics in five coun- tries. A questionnaire made of seven questions was administered to a data sample made of teachers of all grades. The answers coming from the questionnaire were quantitatively and qualitatively analysed. Closed-ended questions were analysed by using a clustering methodology called k-means. Open-ended questions were qualitatively analysed. The results show that almost all the teachers are…
Video-analysis of flight of a model aircraft
2010
In recent years, many research studies have pointed out that modelling environments, based on Information Technology, can supply effective pedagogical strategies dealing with complex real-world systems and everyday problem solutions. At the same time, physics teachers have discovered that video analysis is a relatively inexpensive and 188 worthwhile method of studying «real world» examples of phenomena. This kind of approach is often adopted to analyze sports physics. The study of physics of aircraft flight can be considered a real-world topic belonging to the everyone’s common experience. For this reason, here, we use a video-analysis software in order to measure the main dynamic variables…
The Collection of historical instruments of Acoustics of the University of Palermo
2018
La Collezione Storica degli Strumenti di Fisica dell’Università di Palermo, esposta presso il Dipartimento di Fisica e Chimica, nell’edificio storico di Via Archirafi 36, conserva circa venti strumenti di Acustica. Per la maggior parte, questi strumenti sono stati realizzati nella seconda metà del XIX secolo a Parigi dal costruttore Rudolph Koenig e acquistati dal fisico Pietro Blaserna durante la sua permanenza a Palermo quale titolare della cattedra di Fisica Sperimentale. Nel presente articolo viene descritta brevemente la Collezione Storica degli Strumenti di Fisica, e in particolare tre strumenti di Acustica. In the Historical Collection of Physics Instruments of the University of Pale…
Italian Primary School prospective teachers beliefs about knowledge construction: a case study about models
2012
In this paper we discuss a study on the approaches to modeling of students of the 4-year Primary School Teacher program at the University of Palermo, Italy. The answers to a specially designed questionnaire are analyzed on the basis of an a-priori analysis made using a general scheme of reference on the epistemology of mathematics and physics. The study is performed by using quantitative data analysis methods, i.e. analysis of implicative and similarity trees. Dans ce papier, nous menons une étude relative à l’approche de la notion de modélisation par des étudiants de 4ème année de formation à la fonction de professeur d’école primaire à l’Université de Palerme, Italie. Les réponses à un qu…