Characteristics of Home Experiment.
| Category | Characteristics of Home Experiment |
|---|---|
| Advantage | - Actual experiments are possible. |
| - Smartphone apps enable observations that are difficult to observe directly, and provide accurate measurement results easily. | |
| - It is helpful for student's interest, achievement, and scientific attitude. | |
| Disadvantage | - It may be necessary to send a required basic experimental materials individually. |
| - More complicated experiments are impossible. | |
| - Too detailed data is measured in the smartphone apps. | |
| - Students rely only on smartphone apps for the data collection and analysis process and do not participate cognitively. | |
| Conditions for effective use | - Student-friendly guidance on installation or manufacture of experimental devices, how to use smartphone apps, and how to collect and analyze data is needed. |
| - The experiments presented in the curriculum need to be modified as a home experiment. | |
| Others | - It uses smartphones/sharedware/easy materials available around us. |