Virtual Laboratories For Stem Education: An Evaluation Model And Comparison

الموضوعات

علوم تطبيقية وتكنولوجية

الملخص

Laboratory work is key to science education, and virtual environments play a vital role in remote learning. This thesis is concerned with the evaluation of virtual laboratories used in educational fields, mainly in STEM courses. This research investigates the basic criteria for evaluating virtual environments used in science education in order to create an evaluation scale. We reviewed the literature to highlight the main guidelines of evaluating virtual laboratories and found that the most common evaluation features for virtual tools are Ease of Use, Usefulness, Motivation, Interface Design, and Realism. Upon generating the assessment scale, we selected two web-based interactive simulations to perform the experiments; 201 students replied to the survey that followed our online practical exercises. We used a set of one-sided t-tests to determine whether survey responses for each variable varied from one another. We then compared the results for two online virtual environments and found that Lab 2 PhET interactive simulations show better results compared to the Microscope Virtual Laboratories in terms of Ease of Use, Motivation, Interactivity, and educational Usefulness. In both labs, Motivation and Realism were rated lower than other aspects. Realism is key for virtual worlds, reducing the gap between remote and actual learning settings. The developed model addresses three general evaluation aspects: usability criteria, learners’ perspectives, and realism. The model provided through this research serves as a guide for evaluating, comparing, and developing virtual labs.

روابط وملفات

التعريف والنوع

رقم الوثيقة

07d255f7-8a28-4886-a9c4-191aa7ccf891

رقم العقد

0

نوع الوسائط

Crawler

نوع المحتوى

الرسائل العلمية

صيغة المصدر

رسائل ماجيستير

نوع الملف

pdf text

أسماء الملفات

840741_1.pdf

بيانات النشر

ترجمة العنوان

المختبرات الافتراضیة في مجال تعلیم العلوم والھندسة والتكنولوجیا والریاضیات: نموذج للتقییم ومقارنة

ألقاب المؤلفين

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اللغة

English

المصدر والدورية

اسم المصدر

Virtual Laboratories For Stem Education: An Evaluation Model And Comparison

المحتوى والصفحات

عدد الصفحات

0

إشراف وإعداد

الإشراف

Marton Gergely

الإعداد

Jumana Mahmoud Kharsa

الاقتباسات الببليوغرافية