期刊名称：International Journal of English and Education
印刷版ISSN：2278-4012
出版年度：2016
卷号：5
期号：1
出版社：Brahmaputra Publishing House
摘要：The purpose of this study was to determine students’ perceptions and experiencesfollowing the design of Real Life Instructional Materials (RLM) in teaching concepts of elasticityand the law of floatation in physics. The study involved four ordinary level community secondaryschools from Rural Moshi district and the urban Moshi. A total of seventy one students from thefour schools were involved in the study. Also, four teachers were selected from the sampledschools where by each school provided one physics teacher. The researchers planned andprepared the materials in advance before coaching the teachers on how to implement them.Teachers’ ability to execute student centered teaching approaches was assessed before and aftercoaching. It was found out that the materials could enhance students’ involvement in thelearning process and also students developed positive attitude towards the use of real lifematerials in learning the selected concepts. It was recommended that improvisation ofinstructional materials for teaching the same or different concepts in physics should beencouraged in order to alleviate the problem of material scarcity in the community secondaryschools. But selection of such materials should vary according to the nature of the studentsimmediate environments.
关键词：Real life; Materials; Physics; Students Experiences
