2010/01/25 by Bjoern S. Schmekel, Schmekel, Bjoern S.
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Experimental Learning in Engineering #FOS: Physical sciences #Physics Education (physics.ed-ph) #physics.ed-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1001.4395
Thesis in partial fulfillment of the requirements for a German teaching certificate, written in German, reformatted in LaTeX
arxiv created 2010/01/25 · openalex publication_date 2010/01/25 · arxiv updated 2010/02/26 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Several Authors have demonstrated that substituting computer simulations for real experiments conducted in a lab may help to improve students' understanding of the material. In the present work we try to understand the reasons for this intriguing finding and investigate possible prerequisites necessary to achieve this outcome. The study was conducted in an introductory college-level physics class in Germany. All simulations were performed using PSPICE.