Application of Peer Instruction in General Physics Experiment Course

Abstract

With the social progress and development in China, market competition becomes increasingly fierce. In order to seek more long-term development, China has proposed higher requirements over the cause of education, which takes the training of comprehensive talents as the main objective and transmits more talents to promote social development. On this basis, it is an inevitable choice to apply a new teaching method in the general physics experiment course. As an innovative teaching method, peer instruction, in the practical application, can effectively stimulate students' interests in studies, get them actively involved, develop good experimental creation ability and physical literacy, train their logical thinking capacity, and have a far-reaching impact on the comprehensive development of students' overall quality. As a result, this paper mainly analyzes the application of peer instruction in the general physics experiment course, combines with the actual situation, and objectively describes its key application points and roles, in order to better enhance the teaching effects of the physics experiment course. In the traditional teaching, teacher is the main body of classroom, there is little interaction between teachers and students, students often do not dare to express their opinions, and teachers attach little importance to questions asked by students, which seriously inhibit students' learning efficiency. Such teaching conditions make it hard to doubt teachers. Nevertheless, in Western countries, this cramming teaching method has been replaced as early as the end of last century. They adopt new teaching methods, focus on the cultivation of students' self-learning ability and overall quality, encourage students to actively participate in learning and dare to doubt teachers, and carry out teaching discussions. After comparing with the current educational conditions between China and the US, relevant scholars have found that Chinese students study very hard, have very solid basic skills, and they are good at coping with all kinds of tests, yet they show poor practical abilities, inadequate flexibility, and do badly in asking questions and solving problems. In the teaching of physics experiment, Chinese students show defects in practical ability and innovation ability. The training of practical ability and innovation ability for college students has become a priority for the current teaching reform of the physics experiment course.