Dunnett, K;
Bartlett, PA;
(2017)
Asking the next generation: the implementation of pre-university students' ideas about physics laboratory preparation exercises.
Physics Education
, 53
, Article 015016. 10.1088/1361-6552/aa9324.
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Abstract
It was planned to introduce online pre-laboratory session activities to a first-year undergraduate physics laboratory course to encourage a minimum level of student preparation for experiments outside the laboratory environment. A group of 16 and 17 year old laboratory work-experience students were tasked to define and design a pre-laboratory activity based on experiments that they had been undertaking. This informed the structure, content and aims of the activities introduced to a first year physics undergraduate laboratory course, with the particular focus on practising the data handling. An implementation study showed how students could try to optimise high grades, rather than gain efficiency-enhancing experience if careful controls were not put in place by assessors. However, the work demonstrated that pre-university and first-year physics students can take an active role in developing scaffolding activities that can help to improve the performance of those that follow their footsteps.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Asking the next generation: the implementation of pre-university students' ideas about physics laboratory preparation exercises |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1088/1361-6552/aa9324 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6552/aa9324 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Physics and Astronomy |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10049335 |
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