Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
ENERGY EDUCATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY PART B-SOCIAL AND EDUCATIONAL STUDIES, cilt.4, sa.2, ss.637-652, 2012 (SCI-Expanded)
Tablet PCs are traditional notebook computers with the ability of writing by digital ink with a stylus. They have recently attracted attention as a potential tool for educational use. The study presents the change in students' problem-solving ability, attitude, and perception in an upper-level engineering physics course through the application of a technological interactive environment, composed of a Tablet PC running InkSurvey. Problem solving strategy steps were developed to improve the students' problem solving skills, and combined with Tablet PC/InkSurvey interactive technology which allows the instructor to receive real-time formative assessment as the class works through the problem solving strategies. For that purpose, problem solving strategy survey and problem solving attitude survey were developed for the evaluation of the applied interactive learning model. Besides, the results from quizzes following each chapter of an eleven chapter for Advanced Electricity and Magnetism course were used to evaluate the change in the application of problem solving strategies. Also, the perceptions of the students on interactive learning package were examined. Results show that the students were more confident in their problem solving skills and used effective problem solving strategy more consistently by the end of the course. Besides, results indicate that this model is effective; and may be applied to any advanced engineering, science, or mathematics course that seeks an improvement in the problem solving abilities of the students.