{"id":96367,"date":"2015-06-19T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-19T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?guid=76743a6064c739899c63e6ce30a6e9a1"},"modified":"2015-06-19T03:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-06-19T00:00:00","slug":"using-tracker-to-understand-toss-up-and-free-fall-motion-a-case-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?p=96367","title":{"rendered":"Using Tracker to understand ?toss up? and free fall motion: a case study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This paper reports the use of Tracker as a computer-based learning tool to support effective<br \/>\nlearning and teaching of ?toss up? and free fall motion for beginning secondary three (15?year-old)<br \/>\nstudents. The case study involved ( N = 123) students from express pure physics classes at a<br \/>\nmainstream school in Singapore. We used eight multiple-choice questions pre- and post-test to gauge<br \/>\nthe impact on learning. The experimental group showed learning gains of d = 0.79?????0.23 (large<br \/>\neffect) for Cohen?s d effect size analysis, and gains with a gradient of?< g >? total =<br \/>\n0.42?????0.08 (medium gain) above the traditional baseline value of?< g >? non interactive = 0.23<br \/>\nfor Hake?s normalized gain regression analysis. This applied to all of the teachers and students who<br \/>\nparticipated in this study. Our initial research findings suggest that allowing learners to relate<br \/>\nabstract physics concepts to real life through coupling traditi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This paper reports the use of Tracker as a computer-based learning tool to support effective<br \/>\nlearning and teaching of ?toss up? and free fall motion for beginning secondary three (15?year-old)<br \/>\nstudents. The case study involved ( N = 123) students from express pure physics classes at a<br \/>\nmainstream school in Singapore. We used eight multiple-choice questions pre- and post-test to gauge<br \/>\nthe impact on learning. The experimental group showed learning gains of d = 0.79?????0.23 (large<br \/>\neffect) for Cohen?s d effect size analysis, and gains with a gradient of?&lt; g &gt;? total =<br \/>\n0.42?????0.08 (medium gain) above the traditional baseline value of?&lt; g &gt;? non interactive = 0.23<br \/>\nfor Hake?s normalized gain regression analysis. This applied to all of the teachers and students who<br \/>\nparticipated in this study. Our initial research findings suggest that allowing learners to relate<br \/>\nabstract physics concepts to real life through coupling traditi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"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-96367","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\/96367","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"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=96367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=96367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=96367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}