Designing Experiments: Student Learning Experience and Behaviour in Undergraduate Physics Laboratories
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Abstract
We investigated physics students' learning experience and behaviour in a
second-year laboratory by analyzing transcribed audio recordings of laboratory
sessions. One student group was given both a problem and procedure and asked to
analyze and explain their results. Another was provided with only the problem
and asked to design and execute the experiment, interpret the data, and draw
conclusions. These two approaches involved different levels of student inquiry
and they have been described as guided and open inquiry respectively. The
latter gave students more opportunities to practice "designing experiments,"
one of the six major learning outcomes in the recommendations for the
undergraduate physics laboratory curriculum by the American Association of
Physics Teachers (AAPT). Qualitative analysis was performed of the audio
transcripts to identify emergent themes and it was augmented by quantitative
analysis for a richer understanding of students' experiences. An important
finding is that significant improvements can be made to undergraduate
laboratories impacting both student learning experience and behaviour by
increasing the level of inquiry in laboratory experiments. This is most easily
achieved by requiring students to design their own experimental procedures.
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| Authors | Bei Cai; Lindsay A. Mainhood; Ryan Groome; Corinne Laverty; Alastair McLean |
| Journal | arXiv |
| Year | 2020 |
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