期刊名称：Physical Review ST Physics Education Research
电子版ISSN：1554-9178
出版年度：2005
卷号：1
期号：1
页码：10103
DOI：10.1103/PhysRevSTPER.1.010103
出版社：American Physical Society
摘要：This paper examines the effects of substituting a computer simulation for real laboratory equipment in the second semester of a large-scale introductory physics course. The direct current circuit laboratory was modified to compare the effects of using computer simulations with the effects of using real light bulbs, meters, and wires. Two groups of students, those who used real equipment and those who used a computer simulation that explicitly modeled electron flow, were compared in terms of their mastery of physics concepts and skills with real equipment. Students who used the simulated equipment outperformed their counterparts both on a conceptual survey of the domain and in the coordinated tasks of assembling a real circuit and describing how it worked.
