Most of the time, students need to do selfstudy in order to understand the physics material completely. Knowledge about physical quantities and measurement is a pre-requisite for experiment-based physics class. Thus, students need to master it well. In this project, we develop supporting multimedia in the form of android app to assist students in doing selfstudy on topics regarding the physical quantities and measurement. Android app platform is chosen because it can provide interactive text, illustration and video. It is also popular among students, and it can be used easily by students everywhere and every time. The android app contains explanations, discussions, video demonstrations, exercises and quizzes. Field testing has been conducted to evaluate the effectivity of the android app to improve the students’ conceptual understanding. According to field testing, the use of the android app in self-study is potential to enhance students’ conceptual understanding of physical quantities and measurement principles.
Teachers’ learning in keeping abreast of groundbreaking instructional techniques is crucial for their continuous development of which the ultimate goal is meaningful learning for students. However, research on the extent teachers respond to the demand to change especially on their assessment practice is limited. This study investigated teachers’ resilience on a new educational innovation on formative assessment which is group oriented. The study engaged a cohort of 100 high school teachers joining a professionalism-related seminar and workshop for the expected change. The data were collected from a set of individual questionnaire. Mowbray’s insight on process of reacting to events was employed to analyse the data projected to describe the teachers’ resilience on an innovative assessment practice. The findings indicated teachers revealed resilience to a certain extent on the innovative assessment practice. The majority were open to the challenge to change; it is the novice teachers who revealed the greatest resilience.
Administering formative tests during instructional process in one academic year is prevalently individual-oriented -expecting students to do the quizzes individually -similar to the one when a summative test is carried out. The challenge appears when teachers have implemented group work, but they still implement non-group work oriented formative tests. The underlying argument is that it is essential for formative test administration to come closer to the paradigm implemented regularly. The class session for regular basis should be reflected in the test class session. This paper aims at introducing the insights of executing authentic assessment in the formative test administration while keeping student engagement. They include: 1) the change from individual assessment into group assessment; 2) the change from individual assessment into representative assessment; 3) the change from individual assessment into representative assessment with structured discussion. Furthermore, the encouraging voice of a group of language teachers following group assessment workshop will be revealed.
The essence of the current science curriculum (aka curriculum 2013) nationally applied in all elementary schools is scientific approach to improve the students’ skills and knowledge. Based on our need analysis we found that Mechanical experiment series are highly needed. The main goal of this study is to produce media kit for science experiment activities for elementary school students. The media kit consists of experimental tools kit and their experimental guide modules. We applied the 4-D model to achieve the goal. This study is on-going process; this article reports the progress status of the study.
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