Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14279/2222
Title: Physical versus virtual manipulative experimentation in physics learning
Authors: Zacharia, Zacharias C. 
Olympiou, Georgios 
Major Field of Science: Social Sciences
Field Category: Computer and Information Sciences;SOCIAL SCIENCES
Keywords: Touch;Physics;Experimentation;Laboratory;Simulations;Virtual labs
Issue Date: Jun-2011
Source: Learning and Instruction, 2011, vol. 21, no. 3, pp. 317–331
Volume: 21
Issue: 3
Start page: 317
End page: 331
Journal: Learning and Instruction 
Abstract: The aim of this study was to investigate whether physical or virtual manipulative experimentation can differentiate physics learning. There were four experimental conditions, namely Physical Manipulative Experimentation (PME), Virtual Manipulative Experimentation (VME), and two sequential combinations of PME and VME, as well as a control condition (i.e., traditional instruction with absence of PME or VME). Undergraduate students' understanding of physics concepts in the domain of heat and temperature was tested in a pre- and posttest design that involved 182 participants assigned to the four experimental groups and 52 participants assigned to the control group. Conceptual tests were administered to assess students' understanding before, during and after instruction. The analyses revealed that the four experimental conditions were equally effective in promoting students' understanding of concepts in the domain of heat and temperature and better than the control condition; hence, manipulation, either physical or virtual manipulation, and not physicality, as such, at least in a context like the one of the present study, is important in physics learning.
URI: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14279/2222
ISSN: 09594752
DOI: 10.1016/j.learninstruc.2010.03.001
Rights: © Elsevier
Type: Article
Affiliation: Cyprus University of Technology 
Affiliation : University of Cyprus 
Publication Type: Peer Reviewed
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