This review presents the first attempt to synthesize recent (post-2005) empirical studies that
focus on directly comparing learning outcome achievement using traditional lab (TL; hands …

The world needs young people who are skillful in and enthusiastic about science and who
view science as their future career field. Ensuring that we will have such young people …

Conducting experiments fosters conceptual understanding in science education. In various
studies, combinations of real (hands-on) and virtual (computer-simulated) experiments have …

Current technology has the capacity for affording a virtual experience that challenges the
notion of a teaching laboratory for undergraduate science and engineering students …

Although hands-on laboratory experiments are traditionally used in schools, virtual
laboratories have entered today's classrooms, due to their specific affordances. In this study …

How do people learn in subject areas, such as reading, writing, mathematics, science, and
history, and how can we help people learn, using instructional methods such as feedback …

Immersive virtual reality (VR) has enormous potential for education, but classroom resources
are limited. Thus, it is important to identify whether and when VR provides sufficient …

Learning Physics that most natural phenomena are required to understand knowledge
contextually. This requires a scientific approach to science to improve and develop students' …

This study investigates whether Virtual Manipulatives (VM) within a Physical Manipulatives
(PM)-oriented curriculum affect conceptual understanding of electric circuits and related …

Physics lab instruction is evolving in response to changing technology, a desire to better
prepare students for diverse careers, and renewed focus from physics education …