Modelling Activities of Students During a Traditional Labwork

This case study is integrated in a research program on students’ modelling activity in relation to teaching situations. This research is also a part of a research development project involving secondary school teachers and concerning energy. This case study deals with a quantitative approach of modelling energy phenomena. The data were collected by audio and video, and whole dialogues were transcribed. The transcriptions were analysed by categorising students’ interventions on the basis of their modelling activities. The results obtained concern the role of the different proposed tasks in learning the targeted concepts.