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Sorting Physics Tasks in Terms of Cognitive Operations and their Use in Teaching Practice
Kürtiová, Alica ; Žák, Vojtěch (advisor) ; Hejnová, Eva (referee)
This doctoral thesis is an extension of the diploma thesis entitled Physics Problems for Development of Various Cognitive Operations. The thesis focuses mainly on physical tasks available in the Collection of Solved Problems (http://physicstasks.eu). The main aim of this work is to sort individual tasks of the Collection in terms of cognitive operations. The analysis showed that the largest number of tasks involved are tasks requiring routine calculations, deduction and tasks focused on synthesis. However, tasks requiring categorization and classification, abstraction and generalization and tasks aiming at specification are almost absent in the Collection of Solved Problems, and therefore, according to our recommendation, these tasks could be added in the future. Tasks were categorized according to the taxonomy by D. Tollingerová into seventeen categories. The main benefit of this work for the creators of the Collection is to guide the categorizing of newly created tasks to the corresponding category of cognitive operations. This manual includes, among other things, cognitive operations' characteristics and demonstrations of specific physical tasks with commentaries. Other aim was to create four tests (topics Electrostatics and Electricity) with an emphasis on different types of tasks in terms of...
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Physics problems for development of various cognitive operations
Kürtiová, Alica ; Žák, Vojtěch (advisor) ; Kekule, Martina (referee)
This thesis deals with the role of physics problems which help to develop various cognitive operations. Mainly the taxonomy of the learning tasks by Tollingerová and the Bloom's taxonomy of educational objectives have been used for this purpose. A material which contains characteristics of eleven chosen cognitive operations (induction, deduction, transformation, proving, abstraction etc.) and two typical learning tasks to each cognitive operation has been elaborated in this thesis. The material was created to guide and simplify the selection and creation of physics problems whose solution supports the development of cognitive operations. This process can inter alia help to define, fill and check required educational goals. It may also help with student's motivation or the development of key competencies. Keywords: learning task, physics problem, cognitive operation, cognitive process, taxonomy by Tollingerová
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