Impact of data loggers on science teaching and learning - European ...

<strong>Impact</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>data</strong> <strong>loggers</strong> on science teaching and learningcountries <strong>of</strong> the ROSE study are more positive towards science than in other parts <strong>of</strong> Europe.Nevertheless, in a future study it would be important to confirm this positive effect from the UKstudents on mainstream school pupils and carry out a comparison with students from easterncountries, who have up to now had fewer opportunities to use new technologies in their classesthan their western counterparts.EFFECT OF ACTIVITIES ACCORDING TO THE NUMBER OFPROBES USEDIn addition to the initial conditions affecting the post-activities opinions <strong>of</strong> the students, anotherfactor to take into account is the number <strong>of</strong> probes the different schools used. As we show inTable 4, the pupils from the UK used significantly more than their German counterparts, whichcould explain the difference in impact. On the other hand, the French students used twice thenumber <strong>of</strong> probes and had the same lukewarm opinions after the activities.TABLE 4: Average number <strong>of</strong> probes used per country.CountryAverage number <strong>of</strong> probes usedUK 3.3FR 2.6DE 1.1TR 1.8All 2.0If we remove the country variable and look only at the number <strong>of</strong> probes used, we canstudy the impact on the students depending on whether they used one, two, three or fourprobes (Figure 16, Figure 17, Figure 18 and Figure 19, respectively).27