Year: 2018
Type: article
Study design: Clinical Trial
Abstract: Dynamic assessment (DA) originated from Vygotsky’s ZPD theory has been widely accepted and employed as \nan effective tool to improve students’ learning in recent years. This study investigates the impact of DA on the \ndevelopment of students in physics taught in higher education, that is, at the university level. For the purpose of \nthe present study, sixty undergraduate students in the Faculty of Computing, Engineering and the Built \nEnvironment at Ulster University were randomly divided into two groups as experimental group and control \ngroup. Over an 8-week period, the students in the experimental group were asked to perform 16 physics tasks \nthrough DA procedure, whereas the students in the control group received traditional teaching instruction. \nResults indicated that the students in experimental group improved their physics knowledge significantly \ncompared to their peers in the control group. The findings of this study suggest that DA is an effective method to \nimprove students' physics knowledge.
Author: Parisa Razzaghifard
Language: English
Subfield: Developmental and Educational Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2944028179