How to foster STEM learning during Covid-19 remote schooling: Combining virtual and video experiments.

ABSTRACT: Understanding scientific concepts is a fundamental aim of science education. Conceptual understanding can be fostered through inquiry learning with experiments. However, during the Covid-19 pandemic school closures hands-on experiments could hardly be realized. Fortunately, digital technologies allow for conducting experiments virtually by using interactive simulations or observing video recordings of hands-on experiments. In the present study, 154 seventh graders in remote schooling were involved in inquiry learning using either a combination of virtual and video experiments in two different orders or only virtual experiments. We hypothesized that in general inquiry learning fosters students' conceptual understanding in physics, which could be confirmed. Moreover, we expected the combinat

SUBMITTER: Flegr S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10063575 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature