The introduction of computers in West Germany schools proceeds according to common programmes agreed upon by the Ministers of Education of the 11 Landers. In schools for general education the students should be introduced to informatics through other subjects, notably mathematics. […]
A short report of the introduction of computers in the schools and in physics teaching in France. […]
The paper deals with a sort of discrepancy between the historical development of Quantum Mechanics and the way it is generally taught. Quantum Mechanics is usually presented after its fundamental postulates, while this is not easy to connect to the real historical evolution of the basic ideas. […]
In recent years work on students’ conceptions attracted the attention of people engaged in doing research on difficulties in learning physics. This paper shows that the origin of this kind of work can be traced back to a didactical programme starting many tears ago. […]
Schemes of commonsense knowledge of Italian students and teachers have been inferred by analyzing the answer to a paper and pencil test whose items are centered about real life situations involving thermal phenomena. The analysis, performed by the use of concept maps, […]
ORVICO, a system for collecting data on moving objects, is briefly described. The system uses a videocamera and a computer. Examples of interest to physics teaching include studying the motion of a snowball, a jumper, a pendulum and a disc on an air-table. […]
This article shows how students can be taught the concept of using a transducer to measure the temperature with a very simple electronic circuit in which a NTC thermistor acts as sensor. Only a basic knowledge of the main properties of transistors and thermistors is required. […]
The article describes the aims of the Royal Danish School of Educational Studies and gives a few examples of the courses offered by its Institute of Physics. Information about the main research projects carried out by the academic staff and by the school in the implementation of new curricula in secondary school are finally given. […]