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Ivan Melo (University of Žilina) in collaboration with A. Dirner, J. Hlavacova and G. Tarjanyiova 3rd International Particle Physics Masterclasses 2007 in Slovakia

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Ivan Melo (University of Žilina)in collaboration with

A. Dirner, J. Hlavacova and G. Tarjanyiova

  3rd International Particle Physics Masterclasses 2007 in Slovakia

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Particle Physics Masterclasses:

High school students become scientists for one day and put handson the top research as members of the university research team

•Lectures•Computer exercises•EVO videoconference

Started in Great Britain 10 years ago

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MC 2007: 70 universities from Europe, USA and Africa

• 8 universities from Slovakia

• All videoconferences supported by the Slovak-Caltech EVO team

• Slovakia evaluates (with USA) questionnaires from students

Ministry of Education

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MC 2007 in Slovakia

Žilina

Prešov

KošiceBanská BystricaTrenčín

Trnava

NitraBratislava

8 universities from all regions244 students and 20 teachers from 50 high schools

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Age of students

7%

18%

36%

31%

8%

Other

age 18

age 17

age 16

age 15

169 questionnaires handed in (out of 244 students)

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For me the masterclass today was…

too difficultdifficultjust righteasytoo easy

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Severity of Masterclasses

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The lectures were easy to understand

disagree totally

disagree somewhat

undecided

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The lectures were interesting

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Easy to understand, the lecturers clearly

knew what they were talking about

Lecturers were friendly and had nice

T-shirts !

Very good

Lectures

Interesting

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The video connection gave some insight how

international research collaborations work.

The technical quality of the final video linkup was...

very poor432very good

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We were better than

Manchester !

Very good ! Interesting to see the students around the world

Cool !

We could practice English

Video-conference

Why didn’t they speak Slovak ? ☺

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After attending the masterclass I know more about particle physics

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After attending the masterclass today I am … interested in physics in ge

larger

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How much they learned and what impact it had on them

I learned many new

things

Computer exercise was at times boring

Super !

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How did you like the particle physics masterclass you attended today ?

not at allnot so muchsomewhatmuchvery much

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Did they like it ? Excellent and lot of fun. It’s a pity time

went so fast

Nice people, good lunch, a lot of boys ☺

We had too little muons !

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more modern physics at school

strongly disfavour

disfavour

no preference

favour

strongly favour

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severity of mc

too difficult

difficult

just right

easy

too easy

general learned about organisation of scientific research

nothinglittlesomethingmuchvery much

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increase in interest

more

4

just as before

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Correlations

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For me the masterclass today was…

too difficultdifficultjust righteasytoo easy

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For me the masterclass today was…

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Severity of Masterclasses (comparison)

Slovakia (169) gr,hu,it,pl,pt,sk,sp,sv (824)

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Slovakia (169) gr,hu,it,pl,pt,sk,sp,sv (824)

The technical quality of the final video linkup was ...

very poor432very goodn

um

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gender

female

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The video connection gave some insight how

international research collaborations work.

The technical quality of the final video linkup was...

very poor432very good

nu

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disagree totally

disagree somewhat

undecided

agree

agree totaly

Video-conference (comparison)

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Slovakia (169) gr,hu,it,pl,pt,sk,sp,sv (824)

Did they like it ? (comparison)

How did you like the particle physics masterclass you attended today ?

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How did you like the particle physics masterclass you attended today ?

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gr,hu,it,pl,pt,sk,sp,sv (824)

What did they like most ?

What did you like most about this masterclass?

video linkupexcerciseslectures

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MC 2007 in Slovakia

• T – shirts for best students (4 pairs/university)

• MC seminars (Higgs boson and Quark-Gluon plasma)

• Projects (alpha_s, W branching ratios)

• Central Slovak MC pages: http://fyzika.uniza.sk/mc

• Astronomy Masterclasses