Study of the Effect of the Demonstration Experiment on the Teaching of Direct Current Electrical Circuits to Second-Grade High School Students and Its Comparison With Traditional Teaching

Abstract: It is widely known that electromagnetism is the most representative chapter of physics developed through historical experiments and certainly the most dominant teaching strategy in primary and secondary Education should focus on experiments, which is the milestone of the scientific methodology. This paper presents the results of the comparison between experiment teaching demonstration and traditional teaching model applied on high school students in the field of electrical circuits. The analysis of the results demonstrates the indisputably important role of experiment as a teaching tool, but also as a teaching component which can be used by the teachers to stimulate the interest of students by adopting a different approach from the traditional teacher-centered methodology.

Key words: effect, demonstration experiment, direct current electrical circuits, second-grade high school students