Student feelings towards the laboratory component of an introductory chemistry unit were evaluated in an action research study, over a three-year period at the University of Western Australia. In 2013 we found that the percentage of students with negative feelings towards the laboratory increased over the duration of a semester. In 2014 we…

Many studies have stressed students' lack of understanding of experiments in laboratories. Some researchers suggest that if students design all or parts of entire experiment, as part of an inquiry-based approach, it would overcome certain difficulties. It requires that a procedure be written for experimental design. The aim of this paper is to…

This paper describes the improvement of a series of lab courses in electrical engineering at the University of Twente in Enschede, the Netherlands. Five differing courses of lab classes (measuring instruments and network analysis, basic digital circuits, basic circuits of electronics, electronic functions, and physics measuring methods and…