Primary School Student Ideas on Optics and Vision as Part of a Constructivist Teaching Involving Streaming Educational Video-Clips and ICT

Abstract

An innovative teaching approach was designed and developed as a part of an already completed doctoral research, by incorporating various teaching and learning strategies suitable for 10-year-old students, combined with specially designed streaming video clips. These were integrated inside specific web pages following the course of the teaching sequence, and could be accessed through a browser at any point during teaching. This new teaching approach was extensively tested by measuring students’ ideas before and after the intervention. The results concerning student’s ideas on vision just prior to the experimental teaching are presented herein, with their total measurement errors computed. A full systemic network analysis of student ideas on vision is also presented.