TY - JOUR
T1 - Design and Implementation of Interdisciplinary STEM Instruction
T2 - Teaching Programming by Computational Physics
AU - Lin, Yu Tzu
AU - Wang, Ming Tsan
AU - Wu, Cheng Chih
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018, De La Salle University.
PY - 2019/2/15
Y1 - 2019/2/15
N2 - This study designs and implements interdisciplinary STEM instruction by adopting modelling-based physics programming, and explores its effectiveness on learning. A quasi-experimental study was conducted. The experimental group wrote programs to solve physics problems by following the modelling process, while the control group solved general problems without specific guidance. The findings show that the STEM group performed better on both programming and physics achievements, and had higher self-efficacy on modelling. The STEM group benefited from the modelling-based instruction and could formulate the problems to a more effective representation for problem solving (abstraction), and also could transfer the solution to more accurate code (coding), both of which contributed to programming ability. Through the modelling process for physics simulation, physics programming also improved students’ understanding of difficult physics concepts.
AB - This study designs and implements interdisciplinary STEM instruction by adopting modelling-based physics programming, and explores its effectiveness on learning. A quasi-experimental study was conducted. The experimental group wrote programs to solve physics problems by following the modelling process, while the control group solved general problems without specific guidance. The findings show that the STEM group performed better on both programming and physics achievements, and had higher self-efficacy on modelling. The STEM group benefited from the modelling-based instruction and could formulate the problems to a more effective representation for problem solving (abstraction), and also could transfer the solution to more accurate code (coding), both of which contributed to programming ability. Through the modelling process for physics simulation, physics programming also improved students’ understanding of difficult physics concepts.
KW - Computational physics
KW - Programming instruction
KW - STEM instruction
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85061829842&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/citedby.url?scp=85061829842&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s40299-018-0415-0
DO - 10.1007/s40299-018-0415-0
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85061829842
SN - 0119-5646
VL - 28
SP - 77
EP - 91
JO - Asia-Pacific Education Researcher
JF - Asia-Pacific Education Researcher
IS - 1
ER -