{"title":"Assessment of Student Learning of Operational Procedures in Electromagnetism","authors":"Yi Han, Qiaoyi Liu, Feipeng Pi, Lei Bao","doi":"10.37906/real.2021.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37906/real.2021.3","url":null,"abstract":"In the Chinese high school physics curriculum, three operational procedures are introduced in electromagnetism, namely right-hand grip rule, left-hand rule, and right-hand rule. This often led to confusion for student to differentiate these rules, and thus often focus on the surface characteristics of the problem or be misled by unrelated details. This study adopts the conceptual framework representation to model student understanding, and use it to guide the design of an assessment test on operational procedures in electromagnetism. The conceptual framework maps out the key concepts and their connections within a student’s knowledge structure. In this study, an assessment tool of operational procedures in electromagnetism was developed and tested among Chinese high school students and college freshmen. Based on the testing results of the assessment, students have memory behaviors when using the right-hand grip rule, the left-hand rule and the right-hand rule, and students’ understanding of electromagnetism can be summarized into three progression levels including novice-like, intermediate-mixed, and expert-like. Therefore, in order to help students develop integrated knowledge structures and deeper understanding, the cross product is an important central idea that needs to be emphasized in instruction.","PeriodicalId":256695,"journal":{"name":"Research in Education Assessment and Learning","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115153207","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Comparative Study of RTOP and Chinese Classical Classroom Teaching Evaluation Tools","authors":"Dazhen Tong, Hong-Wei Xing","doi":"10.37906/real.2021.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37906/real.2021.2","url":null,"abstract":"The new round of basic education curriculum reform in China recently will inevitably bring about the reform of classroom teaching. To find a method of testing the reformed classroom teaching effect so that it follows the new curriculum reform is a problem that needs to be solved urgently. On the basis of examining the evaluation concept and application of the \"Reformed Classroom Teaching Observation Protocol (RTOP)\" originated in the United States, we test the appropriateness of RTOP in China's classroom teaching evaluation environment from both qualitative and quantitative perspectives, with good results. By comparing the advantages and disadvantages of RTOP and China's \"Toshiba Cup Scoring Table\", it is found that RTOP can provide guidance for the transformation of classroom teaching evaluation concepts and the development of evaluation tools in the context of China's new curriculum reform.","PeriodicalId":256695,"journal":{"name":"Research in Education Assessment and Learning","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127277799","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The measuring instrument of primitive physics problem for junior high school students: Compilation and Research","authors":"Hongjun Xing, Wen Gong, Peng-Cheng Wang, Yanfang Zhai, Yuping Zhao","doi":"10.37906/real.2021.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37906/real.2021.1","url":null,"abstract":"Problem representation in specific domains has raised great attention in the past years. In mainland China, research of the primitive physics problem teaching has been booming in the physics education domain recently. This study proposes six representations in the process of solving problems for middle school students, including abstraction representation, assignment representation, image representation, physics representation, methodology representation and mathematics representation. The measuring instrument of primitive physics problem for junior high school students was developed according to previous research and the principle of “Objectively Evaluating Subjective Questions”. The participants were 113 grade nine students in mainland China. The results of confirmatory factor analysis confirm the effectiveness of the measuring instrument. A weak correlation between the measuring instrument of primitive physics problems and Lawson Classroom Test of Scientific Reasoning (LCTSR) was found. Therefore, we believe that the primitive physics problem solving ability is a unique ability which is different from the general reasoning ability. This study demonstrates that using the measuring instrument of primitive physics problem to measure junior high school students’ ability of problem solving is promising.","PeriodicalId":256695,"journal":{"name":"Research in Education Assessment and Learning","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127717554","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Analyses on Personalized Employment Guidance in Higher Education","authors":"L. Meng","doi":"10.37906/REAL.2020.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37906/REAL.2020.8","url":null,"abstract":"At present, with the development of entrepreneurship education, higher education draws more attention to students' learning processes and outcomes. Based on a scientific and standardized education system, entrepreneurship education requires higher education to provide students with more targeted, personalized, and flexible guidance to cater to their needs. Therefore, it is necessary to carry out personalized employment services and guidance. This paper aims to discuss how to provide personalized employment guidance and services according to the individual differences of students, and how to make the entrepreneurial education more diverse and get better results.","PeriodicalId":256695,"journal":{"name":"Research in Education Assessment and Learning","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131529282","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"New Attempt of Curriculum Reform: A Case Study of Physics STEAM Curriculum in a Senior High School","authors":"Yuxuan Yang, Yan Fan, Hui Lu, Liqiu Xie","doi":"10.37906/REAL.2020.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37906/REAL.2020.5","url":null,"abstract":"The curriculum is the carrier of teaching activities and an important measure for cultivating national scientific and technological talents. STEAM education originated from the United States, as an interdisciplinary and integrated education mode to cultivate comprehensive talents in the future, aims at improving students' scientific and humanistic literacy, and emphasizes the cultivation of students' lifelong learning awareness, problem-solving ability, scientific inquiry ability and innovation ability. Therefore, designing a STEAM Curriculum with inquiry and engineering orientation has important guiding significance for China's basic education reform. This paper takes the \"Manufacturing of Hydraulic Manipulator\" as the project theme, and based on the 6E learning by design model, discusses the design of STEAM physics curriculum.","PeriodicalId":256695,"journal":{"name":"Research in Education Assessment and Learning","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116218460","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The dilemma and the improvement path of the proposition situation of science in Chinese college entrance examination","authors":"Wen Gong, Hong-Wei Xing","doi":"10.37906/real.2019.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37906/real.2019.3","url":null,"abstract":"As the reform of the examination enrollment system and the examination content in China evolve, although we have witnessed some progress in the quality of science college entrance examination proposition, some challenges and problems persist, mainly in: inadequate diversity of situation, insufficient presentation of the situation and contempt for the scientific nature of situation. In view of the above issues in the compilation of proposition situation, the following improvements are proposed: select situation scientifically, present situation effectively, and explore whether the situation follows the nature of science.","PeriodicalId":256695,"journal":{"name":"Research in Education Assessment and Learning","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122872335","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Influence of the Reform of College Entrance Examination on High School Physics Curriculum in Shanghai","authors":"Yunlin Chen, Guangtian Zhu","doi":"10.37906/real.2019.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37906/real.2019.2","url":null,"abstract":"A new round of the reform of college entrance examination is in progress in China, which would inevitably influence high school curriculum, especially physics. According to our statistics, the proportion of students choosing physics as a selective subject decreased significantly after the reform of college entrance examination was carried out. We conducted a study in Shanghai, one of the pilot areas of the reform, to investigate the impact of the new reform policy of college entrance examination on high school physics curriculum with interviews and FCI tests, thus to provide references for the future reform. We found that compared with the conditions before the reform, the high school students from Shanghai learned less about physics and physics teachers has less time to teach and communicate with students. What is more, college freshmen from Shanghai fell behind those who came from other areas in FCI performance before and even after a term of formal instruction.","PeriodicalId":256695,"journal":{"name":"Research in Education Assessment and Learning","volume":"2014 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114559652","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}