Effectiveness of flip teaching on engineering students' performance in the physics lab

Abstract

Graphical abstractHighlights:• Lab results for Flip and Traditional Methodologies are analysed and compared.• Flip Teaching in the lab sessions improves students' academic performance.• Since students spend more time thinking, they write better lab reports.• Definition of the "analogous students" enables a more detailed statistical study. José A. Gómez-Tejedor et al., Computers AbstractThe progressive introduction of the flip teaching (FT) instructional model into higher education has accelerated in recent years. The FT methodology seems to be especially suitable for laboratory practice sessions: before the lab session the students are given documents and videos that explain the theoretical contents and the experimental procedure. When this material is studied in advance, the practice session can be devoted to the discussion, clarification and practical application of the acquired knowledge. This paper describes the effect of the FT methodology on the students' academic performance when it was applied to the laboratory practice in two subjects, Physics and Electricity, of a technical degree. The laboratory and final grades of these subjects were compared in four consecutive years. The characteristics of all four years were quite similar, except that the traditional teaching method (TM) was used in two, while FT was applied in the other two. The statistical analysis shows that the academic results of the students were better in both subjects under FT than those obtained using TM, and that the difference was statistically significant.

Data set on the effectiveness of flip teaching on engineering students' performance in the physics lab compared to Traditional Methodology

“…The sample in this data paper was formed by 1233 students enrolled from 2013 to 2017 who completed the subjects of Physics (Phys) and Electricity (Elec) following two different methodologies: Traditional Methodology (TM) and Flip Teaching Methodology (FT) [1]. The previous grade that gave access to the university was very similar during all these years, between 6 and 7 (out of 10).…”

“…The previous grade that gave access to the university was very similar during all these years, between 6 and 7 (out of 10). The sample characteristics, the method used each year and course (TM or FT), the number of enrolled students, and the number of students that completed the course are summarized in Table 1 of reference [1], and more detailed information about the methodology is given in Ref. [1].…”

Hacia una aplicación efectiva de Metodología Inversa en las asignaturas de Física de primeros cursos de Grado

“…En este trabajo se analizan los resultados de una encuesta de opinión sobre la aplicación de la docencia inversa en las asignaturas de Física de los grados de Ingeniería Aeroespacial, Ingeniería Informática y la asignatura de Biofísica en el Grado de Ingeniería Biomédica. La implementación de la metodología de DIN en todos los casos es similar y ha sido descrita previamente (Bernal-Perez et al, 2019;Gómez-Tejedor et al, 2020;Vidaurre et al, 2018;Vidaurre et al, 2017). Los estudiantes disponen de una programación semanal de todo el curso.…”

“…Este método cambia las condiciones de dónde y cuándo los estudiantes realizan sus tareas de aprendizaje. Mientras que en la metodología tradicional el profesorado explica conceptos nuevos en clase y el alumnado reflexiona más tarde, en casa, sobre el contenido, en el modelo DIN el alumnado prepara el contenido de la clase en casa, por adelantado (a través del material disponible), mientras que en clase se trabaja y se discute trabajando en equipo (Garrison & Vaughan, 2013;Hung & Chou, 2015;Gómez-Tejedor et al, 2020).…”

“…La aplicación de la DIN en las asignaturas de Física ha dado lugar a resustados que, en general, son positivos, mejorando los resultados académicos de la enseñanza convencional (Gómez-Tejedor et al, 2020). En trabajos previos, los autores han encontrado cierta reticencia por parte de los estudiantes a la implantación de la metodología DIN (Vidaurre et al, 2018).…”