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DiFuSeEm · THE IMPACT OF DISCIPLINARY FUTURE SELF ENRICHED ELECTROMAGNETISM COURSE ON PHARMACY MAJORS’ ACHIEVEMENT AND AFFECT IN PHYSICS

„Хоризонт 2020“ — Действия „Мария Склодовска-Кюри“

Период: 2019-10-01 → 2022-01-31
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Връзката между курса по електромагнетизъм и бъдещата професия на студентите по фармация се изследва чрез специални материали и дейности. Това помага за подобряване на учебните резултати и мотивацията им, за да не напускат избраната специалност.

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THE IMPACT OF DISCIPLINARY FUTURE SELF ENRICHED ELECTROMAGNETISM COURSE ON PHARMACY MAJORS’ ACHIEVEMENT AND AFFECT IN PHYSICS

In today's world, it is obvious how crucial the health fields like pharmacy for the society are and that there is a growing need of professionals in the world in these fields. One of the problems in pharmacy education is that introductory physics courses for pharmacy undergraduate students are perceived as difficult and irrelevant courses. For the same reason, some of the students even stop the academic program they chose for a future career. The disciplinary future-self (DFS) defined as a future identity that one wants to establish by choosing a certain study program, might be a part of the solution for this problem. The DFS enriched courses support future career choices of the students by providing students to see the function of the specific course in their own academic program. Therefore, they help students understand and control affective states, and enhance motivation for better academic results. The EU-funded DiFuSeEM project aims to research the influence of the DFS-enriched instruction in the physics course of Electromagnetism for Pharmacy students. Students` affective characteristics and their achievement in an experimental and control groups are the base for the comparison to find out the effects of the instruction. The objectives of the study are: Objective 1: to design activities and materials that relate the electricity content in the Electromagnetism course to the DFS of Pharmacy students, Objective 2: to design a DFS-related physics instruction with these activities and materials, and Objective 3: to explore the effects of the DFS-related instruction on Pharmacy students’ achievement in the Electromagnetism course and affective characteristics related to physics.

Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз

Цел на проекта

High drop-out rates at university level indicate that students are not able to find what they expected at the university. It is a problem in many European countries. Reports from European Commission and universities, mentioned that relating the courses in their programs to e.g. the disciplinary future selves (DFSs) of the students is one of the solutions by enhancing students’ learning and affective states (e.g. motivation and interest). The DFS is defined as a future identity that one wants to establish by choosing a certain study program.Introductory physics courses in many undergraduate programs such as pharmaceutical sciences, are among the courses perceived as difficult and sometimes irrelevant. There were few attempts to relate physics courses to pharmacy majors. However, there was no study to reveal the effects of these attempts. Though there were attempts to relate introductory physics courses to life-science students which concluded that it is possible to influence participation in a course and students’ perceptions about the link between physics and biology.In order to explore the effects of the DFS-related physics instruction on pharmacy students’ achievement in physics and affective characteristics related to physics, a quasi-experimental research with control group will be conducted. The focus of the physics course is on Electromagnetism. Activities and materials related to electricity content will be developed to design the DFS-related instruction by reviewing the literature thoroughly, and conducting interviews with the course instructors, teaching assistants, pharmacy majors, and pharmaceutical sciences faculty members. The effectiveness of the instruction will be assessed with physics achievement test and the Affective Characteristics Questionnaire (both as pre-test & post-test). During the implementation, experimental and control groups will be observed. After the implementation, post-interviews will be conducted to validate the results.

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

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KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN · LeuvenКоординаторБелгия