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John Kelly; Nicolette S. Richardson; Diane E. Gregory; Megan Murtagh; David M. Andrews – International Journal of Kinesiology in Higher Education, 2024
Human anatomy is a key subject area within undergraduate kinesiology programs. However, literature detailing the course structures, available resources, and teaching approaches used to deliver anatomy education in kinesiology programs is lacking. The present study sought to address this deficit by surveying instructors in Canadian university and…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Science Instruction, Kinesiology, Anatomy
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Cai, Bei; Mainhood, Lindsay A.; Groome, Ryan; Laverty, Corinne; McLean, Alastair – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2021
We investigated physics students' behavior 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…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Science Laboratories, Undergraduate Students
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La Braca, Franco; Kalman, Calvin S. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2021
Traditional, template physics labs are often associated with student dissatisfaction and superficial applications, and are known to leave students with fragmented knowledge. An alternative known as labatorials, a conceptually driven approach to labs, has been proposed. In a number of studies, labatorials have been shown to work well. However, what…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Laboratory Experiments
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Krzic, Maja; Wilson, Julie; Hazlett, Paul; Diochon, Amanda – Natural Sciences Education, 2019
This study explored practices that Canadian soil scientists use to educate postsecondary students, K-12 students, and the general public. The most commonly used type of educational activities described by survey respondents, regardless of the settings and the type of target audience, were field-based hands-on activities. The other two commonly…
Descriptors: Soil Science, Elementary Secondary Education, Postsecondary Education, Foreign Countries
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Thomas, Gregory; Meldrum, Al – Interactive Technology and Smart Education, 2018
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to explore students' perceptions to changes to the learning environment of their undergraduate physics laboratories, in which their scientific inquiry processes were stimulated. Design/methodology/approach: The activities students engaged in were redesigned to reflect a guided inquiry approach and to…
Descriptors: Physics, Laboratory Experiments, Educational Change, Undergraduate Students
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Newman, Karla – Journal of Chemical Education, 2018
Almost all commercial quadrupole ICP-MS instruments use collision/reaction cells to either attenuate spectral interferences or shift the analyte of interest to an interference-free "m/z" (e.g., by O addition). A laboratory practical was developed to introduce the students to the basic operating principles of ICP-MS using a hands-on…
Descriptors: Molecular Structure, Spectroscopy, College Science, Laboratory Experiments
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Liu, Hanlin; Zaplishnyy, Vladimir; Mikhaylichenko, Lana – Journal of Chemical Education, 2016
A multistep synthesis of thieno[2,3-"b"]pyridine derivatives is described that is suitable for the upper-level undergraduate organic laboratory. This experiment exposes students to various hands-on experimental techniques as well as methods of product characterization such as IR and [superscript 1]H NMR spectroscopy, and…
Descriptors: Synthesis, Undergraduate Students, Organic Chemistry, Laboratory Experiments
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Holmes, N. G.; Kumar, Dhaneesh; Bonn, D. A. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2017
Developing critical thinking skills is a common goal of an undergraduate physics curriculum. How do students make sense of evidence and what do they do with it? In this study, we evaluated students' critical thinking behaviors through their written notebooks in an introductory physics laboratory course. We compared student behaviors in the…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Cues, Instructional Effectiveness, Thinking Skills
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MacLeod, Katarin – Physics Education, 2007
The law of conservation of momentum is one that students often have difficulties understanding. This experiment allows students to use childhood toys to examine and calculate the muzzle velocity of their favourite water gun by using an air track, a spark timer or data logger and the law of conservation of momentum in a one-dimensional case, a…
Descriptors: Weapons, Laboratory Experiments, Physics, Science Experiments