23.12.2020

Phys.org: New curriculum improves students' understanding of electric circuits in schools

Jan-Philipp Burde co-developed a concept for teaching Physics

Research into physics education has revealed that even after the tenth grade many secondary school students are not capable of answering such fundamental questions about simple electric circuits despite their teachers' best efforts. Against this backdrop, Jan-Philipp Burde, who recently became a junior professor at the University of Tübingen, in the framework of his doctoral thesis supervised by Prof. Thomas Wilhelm at Goethe University, developed an innovative curriculum for simple electric circuits, which specifically builds upon the everyday experiences of the students. Read the full article on the platform Phys.org.