Wednesday, February 21, 2007

Dr Yap has published an interesting article on "Assessing conceptual learning from quantitative problem solving of a plane mirror problem" at
http://www.iop.org/EJ/abstract/0031-9120/42/1/005/

Saturday, February 17, 2007

The team met Dr Yap on 15 Feb. He reviewed our current project results analysis and gave us useful insights into inquiry based learning and the action research methology.
Some learning points are:
  • the duration of the alternative teaching strategy needs to be sufficiently long to have any significant effect
  • besides test scores, it is good to have other "measures" such as attitude surveys, analysis of types of responses in the test, etc.
  • different modes of representation may be investigated
  • have an operational approach for "inquiry"

Saturday, February 03, 2007

The project team met yesterday to update progress. One group shared on the AR project on "Lenses"; the other shared on the Inquiry-based project on "Kinematics". Project designs and evaluation procedures were discussed. Appointment with an NIE consultant would be made to discuss the analysis of the results using AR tools.