Speaker
Forrest Bradbury
(Amsterdam University College)
Description
Labs can be effective in teaching critical thinking and developing student self-efficacy for empirical science. Open inquiry labs allow students agency in all phases of an inquiry, from defining the research question, testing, refining, and implementing the research methods, and drawing conclusions from results. A team of teachers of diverse undergraduate lab courses won a grant to collaborate in improving their open inquiry teaching methods and to publish open-access course materials and design guidelines to help other lab teachers to adopt open inquiry methods. In our conference contributions we present these practices and guidelines.
| Education level | Age over 18 (excluding teacher education) |
|---|---|
| Physics topic | Full curriculum |
| Research focus | Lab course design |
| Research method | Practitioner’s Inquiry / Action Research (Qualitative research) |
| Organizing preference criteria | Research focus |
Author
Forrest Bradbury
(Amsterdam University College)
Co-authors
Lesley de Putter
Dr
Martijs Jonker
(University of Amsterdam)
Mr
Morten Strømme
(University of Amsterdam)
Dr
Paul Logman
Dr
Simone Mesman
(University of Amsterdam)
