Smartphone and teamwork as a methodological tool for teaching and learning physics

This research is based on the usefulness of mobile phones as a tool for students to learn about uniform rectilinear motion in vertical free fall, based on experimental practice. To evaluate whether these mobile devices allow better learning on the subject, a pre-test/post-test design was carried out with 43 students participating in the 9th grade in natural sciences. McNemar and Stuart-Maxwell non-parametric tests were applied. The proposal on the experimental practice gave satisfactory results when comparing the pre-test and post-test, in the analysis of the particular and global form of the answers.

»[E]ine Art Experiment in unserer Phantasie«

This essay1 documents the participation of the Würzburg professor for ›Literaturgeschichte‹ Hubert Roetteken in a series of experiments conducted by the psychologist Karl Marbe and published in 1901 as part of the research program of the so-called ›Würzburg school‹. It suggests that Rotteken’s Poetik from the following year was positively influenced not only by Marbe’s criticism of Ernst Elster’s poetics, but by his own first-hand account of Marbe’s experimental practice. The article demonstrates how this adaptation represents a change in Roetteken’s ideal of academic reading and the making of ›Literaturgeschichte‹ and contextualizes his position in the broader development of the relationship between ›Germanistik‹ and ›Psychologie‹ as evolving academic disciplines.

The counter-practice as an innovative educational tool to foster learning evolution of Law students

In view of the growing need to reinforce the students’ learning process, the counter-practice is projected as an innovative educational tool capable of achieving an evolution in learning. Through this activity, which has already been implemented in the course unit of Law and Religion at the Jaume I University of Castellón (Spain), the student is granted the possibility of studying in depth a highly topical issue to prepare a legal reflection. Their previous autonomous work will be complemented and perfected with a rigorously updated legal-practical exposition by the teacher after which she will propose to the student an experimental practice with the aim of contrasting it with the legal reality. The learning evolution will take place when students are able to carry out an analysis of factual and legal basis, but enriched with the empirical contrast based on personal or third-party experiences that can lead to a major debate in relation to possible mismatches between law and social reality. Ante la creciente necesidad de reforzar el proceso de aprendizaje de los alumnos, la contrapráctica se proyecta como una herramienta educativa innovadora capaz de lograr una evolución en el aprendizaje. A través de esta actividad, que ya se ha implantado en la unidad de curso de Derecho y Religión de la Universidad Jaume I de Castellón (España), se concede al alumno la posibilidad de profundizar en un tema de gran actualidad para elaborar una reflexión jurídica. Su trabajo autónomo previo será complementado y perfeccionado con una exposición jurídico-práctica rigurosamente actualizada por parte de la profesora tras la cual propondrá al alumno una práctica experimental con el fin de contrastarla con la realidad jurídica. La evolución del aprendizaje se producirá cuando el alumno sea capaz de realizar un análisis de base fáctica y jurídica, pero enriquecido con el contraste empírico basado en experiencias personales o de terceros que puede dar lugar a un importante debate en relación con los posibles desajustes entre el derecho y la realidad social.

Seeing Red: Effects of Practice Interventions on Woodwind Students’ Accuracy in Performing Articulation

Music reading is a central part of most band programs, yet research about music reading has rarely included articulation markings. The purpose of this study was to explore the effect of four experimental practice conditions to a control condition on woodwind players’ performance of slur, accent, and staccato markings. A secondary purpose was to examine the role of working memory in performing articulation. The practice conditions used visual and kinesthetic approaches: colored notation, tracing over articulation marks, and speaking syllables. University woodwind players ( N = 26) practiced short etudes on 1 day, and they returned approximately 24 hours later for retention testing. Participants’ working memory was strongly related to playing articulation on the first day of practice. Woodwind players prioritized playing slurs over accents and staccatos, and there was some support for tracing with color to support accurate performance of articulation.

Art as a Future-Generating Machine: Rheinberger's Experimentalism in Practice-Based Arts Methodologies

This article explores the potential syntheses between practice-based arts research methodologies and the historian of science Hans-Jörg Rheinberger's framing of the scientific ‘experiment.’ Rheinberger offers the experiment as a ‘future-generating machine' resulting from materials discursive processes enacted as ‘repetition with difference’. This framing of epistemological development has applications in practice-based methodologies through their simultaneous execution of action and reflection, as well as the importance of ‘surprise’ in experimental practice.