Name
Title | ||
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A microworld learning for psychology experiments by combining real and virtual experiments |
Abstract | ||
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In this paper, we propose a learning environment for psychology experiments by combining real and virtual experiments. Eighteen undergraduate students were actually enrolled in a class whose design was based on our learning program. By analyzing the participants' learning processes in the class, it was shown that our program worked well as a learning environment for psychology experiments that included various types of activities such as hypothesis formation, experiment planning, and interpretation of the experimental results. Comparing the results from the pre- and post- tests, we found that the participants learned to be guided, through their learning activities in this environment, to deeper understanding of the research objectives dealt with in the microworld. They also acquired knowledge about research methods, such as experiment designing skills, in order to understand research objectives. These benefits seemed to be brought about by the correspondence of the participants' problem solving activities in the real experiment to the training in the microworld learning. |
Year | Venue | Keywords |
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2004 | ICLS '04 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Learning sciences | microworld learning,experiment planning,psychology education,eighteen undergraduate student,inquiry approach,deeper understanding,real experiment,research objective,virtual experiment,research method,psychology experiment |
DocType | Citations | PageRank |
Conference | 0 | 0.34 |
References | Authors | |
1 | 4 | |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kazuhisa Miwa | 1 | 110 | 34.55 |
| Norio Ishii | 2 | 11 | 2.92 |
| Hitomi Saito | 3 | 102 | 11.42 |
| Ryuichi Nakaike | 4 | 12 | 4.28 |