Jochen Kühn|Andréas Müller
Context-based science education by newspaper story problems: A study on motivation and learning effects
University of Kaiserslautern|University of Geneva
using reallife contexts longstanding tradition considered important issue current science education educational psychology drawing research areas well practice reports science classrooms present contribution deals specific form establishing contexts viz context newspaper story problems nsp using particular form science problems based newspaper articles reallife contexts provided effects motivation learning studied quasiexperimental comparison 6 physics classes secondary level 1 n122 grade 10 topic energy learning newspaper based problems vs conventional textbook problems content lesson plan teacher showed considerable positive effects holds general motivation including several subscales p001 2052 well achievement including transfer p001 2020 moreover results show robustness towards various individual classroom features eg gender nonverbal intelligence school type least midterm temporal stability newspaper story problems thus appear useful element contextbased science teaching