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Lough, Tom – 1986
Student-designed laboratory exercises have become an important part of the physics classes at Piedmont Virginia Community College. Rather than filling in the blanks of a laboratory workbook, students are required to design and carry out weekly experiments which relate to the physics concepts being studied. Using computers, standard laboratory…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Community Colleges, Laboratory Experiments, Physics
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The purposes of this study were to (a) gain an understanding of the views of inquiry held by faculty members involved in undergraduate science teaching and (b) describe the challenges, constraints, and opportunities that they perceived in designing and teaching inquiry-based laboratories. Participants included 19 college professors, representing…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Science Activities, Science Laboratories, College Science
Download full textWest, Rinda; And Others – 1991
In 1989, Oakton Community College (OCC) in Des Plaines, Illinois, began developing an honors core seminar in the sciences. The course was to be an interdisciplinary, laboratory-based science and humanities seminar, designed to explore the nature, process, and methods of science and the place of science in society. Rather than mastering a body of…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Community Colleges, Core Curriculum, Course Content
