{"id":437314,"date":"2017-08-01T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-31T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?guid=d70ac88ba7094d5ad8ba2d4c2dcacd94"},"modified":"2017-08-01T02:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-07-31T23:00:00","slug":"active-learning-of-geometrical-optics-in-high-school-the-alop-approach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?p=437314","title":{"rendered":"Active learning of geometrical optics in high school: the ALOP approach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A group comparison experiment of two high school classes with pre and post instruction testing has<br \/>\nbeen carried out to study the suitability and advantages of using the active learning of optics and<br \/>\nphotonics (ALOP) curricula in high schools of developing countries. Two parallel, mixed gender, 12th<br \/>\ngrade classes of a high school run by the local university were chosen. One course was randomly<br \/>\nselected to follow the experimental instruction, based on teacher and student activities contained<br \/>\nin the ALOP Manual. The other course followed the traditional, teacher-centered, instruction<br \/>\npreviously practiced. Conceptual knowledge of the characteristics of image formation by plane<br \/>\nmirrors and single convergent and divergent lenses was measured by applying, in both courses, the<br \/>\nmultiple-choice test, light and optics conceptual evaluation (LOCE). Measurement before instruction<br \/>\nshowed that initial knowledge was almost null, and therefore equivalent, in both courses. After<br \/>\ninstruction testi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group comparison experiment of two high school classes with pre and post instruction testing has<br \/>\nbeen carried out to study the suitability and advantages of using the active learning of optics and<br \/>\nphotonics (ALOP) curricula in high schools of devel&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[178],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-437314","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-rss-fuusikaharidus","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=437314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=437314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=437314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=437314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}