How much are you able to make your students learn? A study of the knowledge gain of students with high learning potential in the course of a teaching setup on wireless communication

Abstract

This master thesis presents looks into how much knowledge can with high learning potential student gain from a tailored teacher setup. An tailored teaching program was created within the theme wireless communication and the data was collected mainly form an anonymous pre and post-test from four diffident subject groups from which the knowledge gain value g was calculated. The knowledge gain takes into account the students prior knowledge on the subject into the calculation. To have an indication of the basis behind the result of the knowledge gain value was a survey given to one of the subject groups to gain the students perspective on the teaching setup in addition to an written after action log in the aftermath for all the subject groups. The teaching setup itself had elements form both traditional teaching method and hands on guided activities for the students, but where the students own interest, comments and questions lead the discussions in different directions. The results of the calculation of the knowledge gain gave a value gave = 0.41 and according to the students themselves was the teaching setup educative, relevant and at an academic level which was neither to high or to low. The students own interests lead the implementation of the teaching setup in slightly different directions, which could not be predicted into the predetermined goals and questions for the pre- and post-test, where the exactly the same test was used on all of the subject groups. Thereby gives the knowledge gain value only an indication of partly how much the students truly has learned, but is the closest one can get to a measurement of the students knowledge gain.