PhyLab – a virtual reality laboratory for experiments in physics: a pilot study on intervention effectiveness and gender differences

Abstract

In performing the mixed ANOVA to assess the devolvement of interest (H2) in physics between boys and girls in the control and the experimental group, homogeneity of error variances assessed by a Levene test for both measurement points (t1: p = 0.25; t2: p = 0.16) and homogeneity of covariances, assessed by a Box-test (p = 0.63) could be established. No significant interaction of measurement points and groups, F(1, 39) = 0.00, p = 0.93, partial η2 < 0.00, or measurement points and genders, F(1, 39) = 1.57, p = 0.22. ηp2 = 0.04, were found. A statistically significant interaction between measure