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RESEARCH PAPER
Evaluation of a High School Practical Experience on Noise Pollution With Smartphones
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Department of Experimental and Social Sciences Education. University of Valencia, SPAIN
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IES Ramón Llull, SPAIN
Publication date: 2021-10-05
EURASIA J. Math., Sci Tech. Ed 2021;17(11):em2030
KEYWORDS
ABSTRACT
This work presents the evaluation of a practical experience on noise pollution based on the use
of smartphones to check if it helps students to better understand the concepts related to this
phenomenon. This evaluation has been done with a pre-post design in which 112 students,
enrolled in the “Physics and Chemistry” course of the 1st year of non-compulsory high school,
have first filled in a diagnostics questionnaire with 5 free response questions about their
knowledge on the topic and then a pre-post questionnaire with 4 free response questions. The
results show that the proposed practical experience is effective since a statistically significant
improvement is obtained both globally and in each of the questions of the questionnaire. The
practical experience has also been highly valued by 38 students enrolled in the “Physics and
Chemistry” specialisation of the Master in Secondary Education Teaching.
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