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New Trends in Physics Teaching IV
TABLE 3. Students’ opinions of the come
Instrument: questionnaire among the 844 students of the 1979 examination, 54 per cent responding (314 boys,
1 /4 girls) percentage response
Yes yes? no? no
1. Pins should be permanently
incorporated in the physics 56 28 7 9 boys
curriculum 75 15 7 3 girls
2. Pins is more interesting 51 27 10 12 boys
than conventional physics 58 27 9 6 girls
3. I enjoyed the Pins lessons 54 25 8 13 boys
58 24 11 7 girls
4. I intend to read more about 23 38 18 21 boys
the Pins topics in the future 17 52 17 14 girls
yes = Iagree
no = I do not agree
yes? = although I’m not sure, I do agree
no? = although I’m not sure, I do not agree
TABLE 4. Students’ opinion about specific PinS-issues*
chapter
Percentage of students that found the chapter:
interesting important dull difficult full of generally
information known
boys girls boys girls boys girls boys girls boys girls boys girls
2. Energy 97 96 97 100 15 10 9 13 88 91 35 20
3. Sound 87 100 88 96 19 17 11 2 81 89 21 17
4. Transport 95 97 90 97 15 3 5 3 84 88 42 12
5. Weapons 92 89 94 100 13 14 17 29 82 100 25 6
6. Developing
countries 82 92 88 93 31 15 4 0 59 78 36 24
7. Spiral 63 72 72 78 47 44 35 22 57 69 15 3
8. Future 88 86 90 100 29 9 14 14 62 82 29 5
*Students could answer questions about the chapters on a 6-point scale:
yes! = I agree very much
yes = I agree
yes? = although I’m not sure, I do agree
no? = although I’m not sure, I do not agree
no
I donot agree
no! = I do not agree at all
The percentages quoted are the sum of the first three categories.
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