Science teachers and technology teachers developing electronics and electricity courses together

Abstract

We analyse the effectiveness of our 'Get Electronics' project, where our aim was to support 60 science teachers and 60 technology teachers in their efforts to co-operate and arrange courses in basics of electricity and electronics. The research problems consider the importance of the study of the basics of electricity and electronics at the comprehensive school and how we succeeded in promoting elective courses in this field by producing new learning materials and by organizing in-service training. Our survey had an ex post facto design with a study group and a non-equivalent control group. The results showed that the study group teachers had been more active in developing and improving their teaching, they had organized more courses, and they had co-operated more actively than had teachers in the control group. We also analyse the features that made our project successful.