A Methodological Analysis for the Development of a Circular-Motion Concept Inventory in a Ugandan Context by Using the Delphi Technique

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (10) ◽  
pp. 61-82
Author(s):  
Kent Robert Kirya ◽  
K. K. Mashood ◽  
Lakhan Lal Yadav
Keyword(s):  
Delphi Technique ◽  
Field Testing ◽  
Circular Motion ◽  
Concept Inventory ◽  
Psychometric Analysis ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Rotational Kinematics ◽  
Educational Efficacy ◽  
Methodological Principles ◽  
Research Initiatives

Concept inventories (CI) constitute a key thread in Physics Educational Research. As such, understanding the methodology and the technique of developing a good CI is essential for all physics teachers. This research aims to develop a circular-motion concept Inventory (CMCI) that is valid in the Ugandan context. To reach a consensus, we used the Delphi technique to collect the data from eleven experts in the physics discipline. These experts were asked to rank each CI item in the inventory, based on the relevant criteria, for assigning a degree of relevance for adoption on a scale ranging from one to four, one being "not relevant" and four being "highly relevant.” Because the technique does not require experts to meet face-to-face, they remained anonymous to one another. These experts are provided with structured questionnaires of CI items from the Rotational-Kinematics Inventory (RKI) and Rolling and Rotational Motion-Concept (RRMC) inventories in the first round, in order to adopt items relevant to circular-motion concepts in the Ugandan context. They agreed to use 31 CI items in the RKI and 14 CI items in the RRMC in the second round. The mean and standard deviation of expert replies were analysed by using descriptive statistics. We used the methodological principles of CI creation, in order to create eight CI items to fill in the missing sub-concepts. Therefore, a total of 53 concept items were created. In order to analyse their qualities in a psychometric analysis, these will be evaluated by using field testing and psychometric analysis. Various physics instructors will access the CMCI, because the field testing aims to gauge the level of educational efficacy in their academic and research initiatives.

The calculus concept inventory: a psychometric analysis and implications for use

2018 ◽  
Vol 50 (6) ◽  
pp. 825-838 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jim Gleason ◽  
Spencer Bagley ◽  
Matthew Thomas ◽  
Lisa Rice ◽  
Diana White
Keyword(s):  
Concept Inventory ◽  
Psychometric Analysis

scholarly journals Development of the Central Dogma Concept Inventory (CDCI) Assessment Tool

2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. ar9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dina L. Newman ◽  
Christopher W. Snyder ◽  
J. Nick Fisk ◽  
L. Kate Wright
Keyword(s):  
Molecular Biology ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Field Testing ◽  
Student Thinking ◽  
Concept Inventory ◽  
Single Class ◽  
Central Dogma ◽  
Scientific Teaching ◽  
Beta Testing

Scientific teaching requires scientifically constructed, field-tested instruments to accurately evaluate student thinking and gauge teacher effectiveness. We have developed a 23-question, multiple select–format assessment of student understanding of the essential concepts of the central dogma of molecular biology that is appropriate for all levels of undergraduate biology. Questions for the Central Dogma Concept Inventory (CDCI) tool were developed and iteratively revised based on student language and review by experts. The ability of the CDCI to discriminate between levels of understanding of the central dogma is supported by field testing (N = 54), and large-scale beta testing (N = 1733). Performance on the assessment increased with experience in biology; scores covered a broad range and showed no ceiling effect, even with senior biology majors, and pre/posttesting of a single class focused on the central dogma showed significant improvement. The multiple-select format reduces the chances of correct answers by random guessing, allows students at different levels to exhibit the extent of their knowledge, and provides deeper insight into the complexity of student thinking on each theme. To date, the CDCI is the first tool dedicated to measuring student thinking about the central dogma of molecular biology, and version 5 is ready to use.

scholarly journals Perancangan dan Pengembangan Aplikasi E-commerce Pada Catering Anugrah

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 117-127
Author(s):  
Siswanto ◽  
Azwar Wardiansyah
Keyword(s):  
Field Testing ◽  
Internet Technology ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Digital Networks ◽  
Application Development ◽  
Internet Service ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Service Demand ◽  
Business Transactions ◽  
Use Of The Internet

The increasing use of the Internet by a society marked by soaring costumer and businessmen, to encourage the emergence of an internet service demand in excess of what can be obtained in the real world. This includes the opportunity to sell goods online commodity. Business people in general are still conducting business transactions manually through direct face to face or over the phone. But sometimes this method is not very effective, because not everyone knows the phone number of the company. Should be developed based E-commerce system that focuses on individual-based business transactions using the Internet (technology-based digital networks) with application of E-commerce transactions can be done more quickly and more intensively. Therefore the grace of catering company wants to advertise his wares by using websites that have a sales system based on e-commerce with the aim of selling efficiency of the way the previous sales system. The method used in the design and development of e-commerce in the catering grace Semarang is a Research and Development (R & D) in this study only up to the stage six (6) to produce the end product is a prototype, so it was not until the stage of implementation of the product. The sixth step is Research and information collecting, Planning, Develop prelminaryformof product, Preliminary field testing, revision and Main Main product field testing. The results of the research prototype applications products that have been tested in the field and meet the objectives stated in the design and application development e-commerce in the catering grace Semarang

scholarly journals Mobile Application Development as Physics Learning Resource on The Topics of Circular Motion

2020 ◽  
pp. 89-94
Author(s):  
Johannes V. D. Wirjawan ◽  
Cindy Mercialina Rombe ◽  
Herwinarso Herwinarso ◽  
Budijanto Untung ◽  
Elisabeth Pratidhina
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Mobile Application ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Field Testing ◽  
Circular Motion ◽  
Application Development ◽  
School Students ◽  
Communication Device ◽  
Private High School

The development of smartphones has shifted the primary function of the mobile phone as a communication device. A smartphone is like a pocket computer that enables users to access multimedia, browsing information on the internet, and install many applications to help them in doing various activities. Various functions of smartphones prompt educators to utilize smartphones in promoting teaching and learning. In this work, we develop a mobile application that can assist students in learning high-school physics. The topic focuses on circular motion. As this application is developed for the smartphone platform, it can be accessed by students anytime and anywhere. According to the experts' evaluation, the application is appropriate to support high school students in learning circular motion. A field testing has been conducted on 23 students in a private high school in Indonesia. Students' learning achievement moderately improves, with a normalized gain of 0.59. Also, the students' response to the developed mobile application is positive.

COVID-19-driven sudden shift to remote teaching: the case of the Languages for the Community Program at the Universidad Nacional del Litoral

2021 ◽  
pp. 111-124
Author(s):  
María del Valle Gastaldi ◽  
Elsa Grimaldi
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Collaborative Work ◽  
Extension Service ◽  
Satisfaction Survey ◽  
Santa Fe ◽  
Community Program ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Study Programs ◽  
Language Courses ◽  
Methodological Principles

The Languages for the Community Program (LCP), one of the units that make up the Language Center at Universidad Nacional del Litoral (UNL), Santa Fe, República Argentina, is an extension service provided to people 17 years of age and older that live in Santa Fe or in neighboring towns, and to UNL students wishing to take language courses other than those offered in their own study programs. Since 1999 when they started, these language courses have been taught in a traditional face-to-face modality. The purpose of this chapter is to describe the way in which the first term in 2020 had to suddenly shift to remote teaching and how this shift was devised, coordinated, delivered, and evaluated in response to the unexpected context provoked by the outbreak of COVID-19. The chapter also reports the changes implemented during the second term according to the results of a satisfaction survey administered to students. Collaborative work, previous expertise, and methodological principles allowed the staff at LCP to offer a quality educational response to this paradigm shift in foreign language teaching and learning.

Clickers in a First Statistics Course

2011 ◽  
pp. 195-225
Author(s):  
Alice Marion Richardson
Keyword(s):  
Student Outcomes ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Multiple Choice ◽  
Student Response ◽  
Concept Inventory ◽  
Introductory Statistics ◽  
Student Response System ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Response System ◽  
Statistics Course

This chapter reports on a three-year project to study to improve student outcomes in an introductory statistics course. Collaboration with a language expert led to the introduction of a variety of student-centred activities during the course. Some were online such as matching terms to definitions and multiple choice quizzes. Some were face-to-face such as the introduction of a student response system (commonly known as clickers). Results show a small but significant increase in grades following the introduction of these two interventions. A meta-analysis of research into the use of clickers was also conducted. This shows a small but significant increase in exam marks for students who used clickers in class. A Statistics Concept Inventory (SCI) was also used to assess students’ understanding of the course concepts. The usefulness of the SCI was partially supported, as many questions were better answered by more able students. The SCI was also used to assess retention from one semester to another. Again, the usefulness of the SCI is partially supported, in that students who remembered more of their introductory statistics study did better in a second statistics course.

Accurate Items for Inaccurate Conceptions in Undergraduate Physics Students

2017 ◽  
pp. 315-341
Author(s):  
Eder Hernandez ◽  
Genaro Zavala
Keyword(s):  
Item Response ◽  
Private University ◽  
Concept Inventory ◽  
Psychometric Analysis ◽  
Current Group ◽  
Student Sample ◽  
Physics Students ◽  
The North ◽  
Electricity And Magnetism

Generating a concept inventory for a specific student sample is a task that, if completed successfully, could help the instructor have a better approach to what students think at the time they are taking a test. This allows the instructor to observe which concepts the students are struggling with the most, and make the necessary adjustments for that current group, or for future ones. This investigation aims to analyze and classify the electrostatic items of the Conceptual Survey of Electricity and Magnetism (CSEM) in order to decide which items are useful and which ought to be modified. By performing a psychometric analysis on each of these items, mostly based on the Item Response Curve's (IRC) graphs' evaluation, this study will target and determine the items that fit the best for the students enrolled in the Electricity and Magnetism undergraduate course at a private university in the north of Mexico.

scholarly journals TADALURING Microteaching Learning Model (TMLM): Preparing Professional Teacher by Pre-Service Training

2018 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
pp. 00007
Author(s):  
Arifmiboy ◽  
Jamaris Jamna ◽  
Mega Iswari ◽  
Agustina
Keyword(s):  
Time Management ◽  
Systems Design ◽  
Field Testing ◽  
Learning Model ◽  
Instructional Systems ◽  
Training And Education ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Professional Teacher ◽  
Service Training ◽  
And Training

As a certified professional, teacher forms indispensable roles in achieving the learning objectives. The complexity of teacher’s profession decidedly requires the teacher to master a number of competencies and skills. One of them is to master the basic teaching skills. Realizing the complexities of the teacher’s profession and the requirement of teacher’s profession, LPTK –Faculty of Teacher Training and Education– which produces professional teacher, requires enhancing the teacher’s quality and creativity through pre-service teaching and training. Microteaching is one of the efforts to prepare the candidate for a professional teacher in higher education. The growth of a number of students being served with the availability of micro teaching laboratories is, however, disproportionate. Consequently, the problems faced are the time management, the laboratory utilization, the availability of sufficient microteaching infrastructures as well as the implementation of micro teaching itself. One of the ways to solve the problems is to develop a microteaching model adapting the force driving sophisticated ICT named TADALURING Microteaching Learning Model (TMLM). The Instructional Systems Design (ISD) made use of developing the model is Borg and Gall procedures. The cyclical phases of conducting the research were preliminary research, development, field-testing, and dissemination. The research finding indicates that the trial-tested model is stated valid, practical, and effective. The TADALURING Microteaching Learning Model (TMLM) is essentially accentuated on a face-to-face classroom, online and offline practices.

scholarly journals AN ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS (AHP) MODEL FOR UNDERSTANDING CONVENTION PLANNERS’ PRIOR FACTORS OF CONVENTION HOTEL SELECTION

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Ozan AKSOZ ◽  
Çağıl Hale Özel ◽  
Meryem Akoğlan Kozak
Keyword(s):  
Analytic Hierarchy Process ◽  
Delphi Technique ◽  
Selection Criteria ◽  
Analytic Hierarchy ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Travel Agents ◽  
Local Support ◽  
Managerial Implications ◽  
Collection Form ◽  
Hierarchy Process

<p>In the process of organizing a convention, owners of conventions forward their requests to convention planners and leave the full organization of the event to convention planners. Therefore, convention planners perform all the purchases for the organization of a convention. Selecting the suitable convention hotel is a critical step for a successful convention, and for that reason, convention hotels should understand convention planners’ preferences in order to have success in convention tourism. The aim of this study is therefore to determine the primary convention hotel selection criteria of convention planners operating in Ankara. The Delphi technique was used for the development of a data collection form. Data were gathered by conducting face to face interviews with managers from 13 travel agents in April, 2014. The Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) was employed in the analysis of data. Findings indicate that facilities of the convention hotel, price, accessibility, site environment, and local support were clarified as the primary factors, respectively. Managerial implications for convention hotel managements are also discussed. </p>

scholarly journals SHARING THE SPIRIT, FANNING THE FLAMES OF SOCIAL JUSTICE

Periferia ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 13-20
Author(s):  
Rosangela Malachias ◽  
Elizabeth C. Reilly ◽  
Kay Fuller
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Women Leaders ◽  
Women In Leadership ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Conference Presentations ◽  
Research Initiatives ◽  
Successes And Challenges

From its first conference held in Rome in 2007, when members of Women Leading Education (WLE) began profiling the progress, successes, and challenges of women leaders internationally and offering theories to expand our understanding of women in leadership, we have had the opportunity not only to meet together at our bi-yearly conferences as scholars and practitioners face-to-face, but to extend our work beyond them. Numerous research initiatives, conference presentations, and publications have resulted from the collaboration of WLE colleagues. 

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document