COURSE UNIT TITLE

: DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
OFZ 4108 DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS COMPULSORY 2 0 0 5

Offered By

Physics Teacher Education

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR KEMAL YÜRÜMEZOĞLU

Offered to

Physics Teacher Education

Course Objective

To practice for teaching activities in the high school physics teaching curriculum, and to determine appropriate teaching strategy, method, and technique for activities

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To determine distribution for classes the areas of learning and units in the high school physics teaching curriculum
2   To recognize the activities and contents in the 9th and 10th grade high school physics teaching curriculum.
3   To practice for teaching of activities in the 9th and 10th grade high school physics teaching curriculum.
4   To determine appropriate teaching strategy, method and technique for the activities in the 9th and 10th grade high school physics teaching curriculum
5   To design and application an alternative activity options for activities in the 9th and 10th grade high school physics teaching curriculum

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Philosophy and framework of high school physics teaching curriculum
2 Activities and contents of the 9th and 10th grade high school physics teaching curriculum
3 Determine sample activities from 9th and 10th grade high school physics teaching curriculum for teaching applications
4 Determine teaching strategy, method and technique appropriate for selected activities
5 Determine alternative activities and integration into curriculum
6 Preparation processes for teaching and applications
7 Midterm Exam
8 Teaching and applications through sample activities related to nature of physics
9 Teaching and applications through sample activities related to energy
10 Teaching and applications through sample activities related to matters and features
11 Teaching and applications through sample activities related to electrical and/or magnetism
12 Teaching and applications through sample activities related to waves
13 Teaching and applications through sample activities related to modern physics
14 Feedback related teaching and applications and assessment
15 Final exam

Recomended or Required Reading

9, 10, 11 and 12th Grade High School Physics Teaching Textbooks.
Ministry of National Education High School Physics Teaching Curriculum
Physics Education Journal
The Physics teacher Journal
Science activities Journal
Yürümezoğlu, K. et al. (2011) Innovative Experimental Physics activities examples supported Video 1, Lecture Notes

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Project, Presentation, Discussion

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 STT TERM WORK (SEMESTER)
3 FINS FINAL EXAM
4 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.30 + STT * 0.10 + FINS * 0.60
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.40 + RST * 0.60


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

kemal.yurumezoglu@deu.edu.tr
Dokuz Eylul University, Buca Education Faculty, Secondary Science and Mathematics Education Department, Physics Education Division, Ugur Mumcu Cad. 135. Sk. No: 5 35150 Buca-Izmir Phone: +90 232 3011379 Fax: +90 232 4204895

Office Hours

working hours on weekdays

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 2 26
Application 13 2 26
Preparation for midterm exam 7 1 7
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 1 13
Preparation for final exam 7 2 14
preparation the scientific activity report 13 2 26
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 116

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