We aim for students to achieve the greatest possible success during their education and later in their careers. The purpose of this research is to determine to what extent different methods of teaching physics prepare students to solve new types of problems, where the mere use of equations is not sufficient for a successful solution. From the literature, I will select various types of physics problems and compile a test that covers different chapters of high school physics. I will also translate the test tasks into the languages of the participating countries.
I will invite students from Slovenia and Serbia, who are nearing the end of high school and are taught in a traditional way, as well as students from the USA, who are taught using the ISLE approach and have only one year of physics instruction, to participate in the research.
Through this study, I will try to determine how students from different environments, taught in different ways, approach solving new types of problems. I will particularly focus on their ability to evaluate a proposed solution or to argue for their own solution.
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