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C. F. J. Pols; P. J. J. M. Dekkers – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2024
Acknowledgement of the limited learning outcomes in our first-year physics lab course, strikingly similar to the observed and reported issues in literature, incited renewal of the course with a focus on developing students' ability to engage in experimental physics research. The "procedural and conceptual knowledge (PACKS)…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Laboratories, Student Research, Science Process Skills
Gayle Geschwind; Michael Vignal; Marcos D. Caballero; H. J. Lewandowski – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2024
Concepts and practices surrounding measurement uncertainty are vital knowledge for physicists and are often emphasized in undergraduate physics laboratory courses. We have previously developed a research-based assessment instrument--the Survey of Physics Reasoning on Uncertainty Concepts in Experiments (SPRUCE)--to examine student proficiency with…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Physics, Science Laboratories, College Science
Wei-Zhao Shi; Chunying Zuo; Jingying Wang – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2025
Previous research has shown that in prehigher education stages, inquiry-based teaching is not sufficient for forming a mature understanding of the nature of science (NOS). However, there is relatively little research conducted on colleges. Inquiry-based teaching should not overlook cognitive frameworks, as students' limited scientific reasoning…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Inquiry, Active Learning, College Science
Buggé, Danielle; Rutberg, Joshua; Ahmed, Sheehan H.; Zisk, Robert; Jammula, Diane – Physics Education, 2023
The Investigative Science Learning Environment (ISLE) approach to learning and teaching holds as one of its core tenets that students should learn physics by engaging in the same processes through which physicists develop new knowledge. One key skill necessary for this is hypothetico-deductive reasoning. In this study, we explored how the…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Science Process Skills, Logical Thinking, Thinking Skills
Kok, Karol; Boczianowski, Franz – Physics Teacher, 2021
Science labs should promote reasoning that resembles the work that scientists do. However, this is often not the case. We present a lab in which students strive to find out which of two models best describes a physics experiment. The quantification of measurement uncertainties--another topic that is often neglected in high school…
Descriptors: Acoustics, Science Laboratories, Science Experiments, Physics
Hoehn, Jessica R.; Lewandowski, H. J. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2022
Students sometimes learn about a model of the "scientific method" that is linear and clear cut. While this approach may have pedagogical advantages, it does not reflect how science is often done in practice. The Experimental Modeling Framework (EMF) describes the complex and iterative process of experimentation in the domain of physics,…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, Scientific Attitudes, Scientific Methodology
May, Jason Michael – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Undergraduate physics laboratory curriculum has undergone significant modification in recent decades in response to research and recommendations from educational and professional organizations and stakeholders. These reforms address multiple issues, such as 1) lack of student agency in experimentation, 2) an incomplete framework for student…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, College Science, Introductory Courses, Physics
Meagan Sundstrom; Rebeckah K. Fussell; Anna McLean Phillips; Mark Akubo; Scott E. Allen; David Hammer; Rachel E. Scherr; N. G. Holmes – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
[This paper is part of the Focused Collection on Instructional labs: Improving traditions and new directions.] Research on nontraditional laboratory (lab) activities in physics shows that students often expect to verify predetermined results, as takes place in traditional lab activities. This understanding of what is taking place, or…
Descriptors: Science Education, Nontraditional Education, Science Laboratories, Physics
Sulaiman, Nidhal; Werth, Alexandra; Lewandowski, H. J. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
A large-enrollment, introductory physics laboratory course at the University of Colorado Boulder has undergone a recent transformation to help students' develop lab skills and better align students' views and beliefs about experimental physics with those of expert experimental physicists through engagement with authentic scientific practices. We…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Physics, Science Instruction, Science Laboratories
Danielle Buggé – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
[This paper is part of the Focused Collection on Instructional labs: Improving traditions and new directions.] National organizations set goals of engaging students in experimentation and authentic scientific reasoning while developing normative concepts to help them develop essential skills and competencies necessary to succeed in our rapidly…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Science Process Skills, Physics, Science Laboratories
Bitzenbauer, Philipp; Meyn, Jan-Peter – Physics Education, 2021
Physics teachers are often faced with the challenge of having to set up difficult experiments, or they have to consciously manipulate parameters in order to be able to demonstrate a phenomenon convincingly. Comprehensive laboratory courses are standard procedure in any study program for prospective physics teachers. However, many students, even…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Science Teachers, Science Experiments
Borish, Victoria; Hoehn, Jessica R.; Lewandowski, H. J. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2022
Modeling, which is the process of constructing, testing, and refining models, is an important skill in experimental physics, and thus a learning goal of many physics laboratory classes. One promising approach to help students develop modeling skills is to incorporate multiweek student-designed projects into lab courses. In order to assess the…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Science Laboratories, Science Process Skills
Perl-Nussbaum, David; Yerushalmi, Edit – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2022
Inquiry practices can be integrated into various settings that differ in terms of their constraints and hence in the scope and depth of the practices that students experience. Key policy papers suggest implementing a gradual learning sequence for inquiry practices so that students' learning experiences in more constrained settings can serve them…
Descriptors: High School Students, Student Attitudes, Inquiry, Relevance (Education)
Kapici, Hasan Ozgur; Akcay, Hakan – Themes in eLearning, 2020
Rapid developments in educational technology show its impacts on classes. One of the recent trends in science education is virtual laboratory environments. The goal of this study is to reveal the effects of inquiry-based hands-on and virtual laboratory environments on pre-service science teachers' inquiry skills. A quasi-experimental research…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Science Teachers, Science Process Skills, Hands on Science
Yener, Dündar; Koklu, Nigmet; Yamac, Ramazan Ziya; Yalcin, Seher – Journal of Turkish Science Education, 2020
The aim of this study is to determine the trend of studies in the laboratory and put the current situation in Turkey. For this purpose, document analysis technique, one of the qualitative research methods, was used in the research. The data group of the research consists of thesis studies on laboratories in our country between 1999-2017. Theses in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Trends, Science Education, Science Laboratories