Studies carried out in Europe - Report by High Level Group on Science Education"Science Education Now: A renewed Pedagogy for the Future of Europe", Report by the High LevelGroup on increasing Human Resources for Science and Technology in Europe "Europe needs morescientists", show an alarming decline of the interest in and motivation for the study of sciences ingeneral, of Physics in particular. Unfortunately, this descending trend is also confirmed in Romania.These studies indicate as a possible cause, besides social and economical factors, an old-fashionedapproach of the teaching-learning process, for example "chalk and talk" method. Therefore it isrecommended the use of some didactic methods adapted to each student's knowledge level, style andrhythm. In this paper we present a pedagogical experiment conducted in Bucharest, in which 150high-school students from 6th and 9th grade were involved. The results of this experiment confirm thehypothesis of the research: differentiated instruction according to the student's readiness and learningprofile can lead to a significant increase of the efficiency in learning Physics and implicitly to anincrease of the interest in and motivation for the study of this subject.
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