Comparing and combining real and virtual experimentation: an effort to enhance students' conceptual understanding of electric circuits

By Zacharias C. Zacharia. Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2007

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Virtual and remote labs in education: A bibliometric analysis (2016, methodology): “Zacharia et al. [46] test the value of combining hands-on and virtual labs with respect to changes in students conceptual understanding of electric circuits.”
Student Perceptions of Learning in the Laboratory: Comparison of Industrially Situated Virtual Laboratories to Capstone Physical Laboratories (2011, result): “This increase is consistent with other studies that have shown that the virtual laboratories promote high-level cognition (Finkelstein et al., 2005; Zacharia, 2007).”
Effectiveness of virtual reality-based instruction on students' learning outcomes in K-12 and higher education: A meta-analysis (2014, neutral): “…the effect sizes calculated for studies of the efficacy of simulations-based instruction revealed that a study by Papaevripidou, Constantinou, and Zacharia (2007) had an effect size that was three standard deviations below themean (Hedges g¼ 6.44), which is likely to bias the overall…”
Conceptual Understanding of Electrical Circuits in Secondary Vocational Engineering Education: Combining Traditional Instruction with Inquiry Learning in a Virtual Lab (2013, background): “…questions; in other words, they had to be engaged in a process of inquiry learning (Chi, Slotta, & de Leeuw, 1994; Chinn & Brewer, 1998; Hewson, 1985; Jaakkola et al., 2010; Muller, Bewes, Sharma, & Reimann, 2008; Strike & Posner, 1985; Tao & Gunstone, 1999; Trundle & Bell, 2010; Zacharia, 2007).”
Evaluation of Evidence-Based Practices in Online Learning: A Meta-Analysis and Review of Online Learning Studies (2009, background): “…tutorial sessions in supplemental instruction for students at-risk for academic difficulties +0.264 0.192 -0.112 0.639 1.37 96.86 73.85 110 students Zacharia (2007) Comparing and combining real and virtual experimentation: An effort to enhance students’ conceptual understanding of electric…”
The learning effects of computer simulations in science education (2012, methodology): “In studying the differences between using so-called Real Experimentation (RE) and Virtual Experimentation (VE), Zacharia (2007) compared a control group only using RE with an experimental group using a combination of RE and VE (see Fig.”
A META-ANALYTIC EXAMINATION OF THE INSTRUCTIONAL EFFECTIVENESS OF COMPUTER-BASED SIMULATION GAMES (2011, methodology): “Active instructional methods include computerized tutorials, completing assignments, and conducting laboratory experiments (e.g., Hughes, 2001; Zacharia, 2007).”
Augmented reality in science laboratories: The effects of augmented reality on university students' laboratory skills and attitudes toward science laboratories (2016, background): “Research has proven that an approach in which physical and virtual experiences are combined yields the best results because students can make use of opportunities offered by the educational technology in their science labs, and they are not thereby separated from the real laboratory environment and ”
Concreteness Fading in Mathematics and Science Instruction: a Systematic Review (2014, background): “Further, transitioning from physical experimentation with actual concrete models to a simulation environment promoted better conceptual understanding than physical experimentation alone (Zacharia 2007).”