Conveners
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- Forrest Bradbury (Amsterdam University College)
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- Sapna Sharma (St. Bede's College, Shimla, India)
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- Freek Pols
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- Ingrid Krumphals (University College of Teacher Education Styria)
Despite empirical evidence for the effectiveness of competence-based physics lab courses, they frequently still follow historically developed structures pragmatically using the infrastructure given. In this talk, the design of a hands-on didactic workshop for instructors and the experiences made over the years are presented. An integral feature is the development of learning goals for the...
Creativity is an important higher order skill but it is hard to measure directly. Various
methods to measure students’ collective creativity are compared and discussed. These methods were applied to students’ design proposals for an own choice experiment in soft matter. After comparison, the most promising quantification of collective creativity was a random probability calculation of the...
Despite calls to increase student agency in experimental research practices in the instructional lab, traditional labs remain highly prescriptive. This study took an ecological perspective to examine teachers' considerations when engaging in a professional learning community (PLC) designed to support reform in lab instruction. We focus on small group discussions to analyze teachers’ discourse...
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...
This study investigates the deflation dynamics of soap bubbles attached to cylindrical straws, combining theoretical modelling with laboratory experiments. A mathematical model is developed to describe the evolution of the bubble’s radius, incorporating surface tension and viscosity. The experimental setup validates the model, highlighting the importance of precise measurements, statistical...
The Bureau International des Poids et Mesures plays a central role in standardizing metrology. Thirty years ago, it shifted its approach to measurement, moving away from the concept of true value and error toward a framework in which a measurement result is represented as a set of possible values. The transposition of the international standard into secondary education is currently underway....
In 2024, our department launched the ToPLab initiative to implement department-level, sustainable, and evidence-based innovation in teaching labs. The transition from the broader department initiative to course-specific reforms is facilitated by Faculty Learning Communities along with other change strategies. This complex process entails a collaboration between course instructors and physics...
The ADELANTE project addresses challenges in integrating physics labs into secondary education by incorporating smartphones and Arduino microcontrollers into teaching-learning sequences (TLSs) with educational intentionality. Following the Design-Based Research framework, several TLSs were developed, targeting foundational physics topics: motion, energy, forces and fields, waves and particles....
Evaluating the efficacy of teaching scientific argumentation skills in undergraduate courses is an important task for ensuring that we are providing a high-quality scientific education. To this end, we propose an approach that leverages recent advancements in computational methods to automate the extraction of text from undergraduate student lab reports and identify elements of scientific...
Open Educational Resources have the potential to enhance the quality of teaching materials, but various technical challenges can hinder their implementation. In TU Delft’s first-year physics lab course, we use Jupyter Books hosted on GitHub to address these challenges while maintaining student satisfaction with the content. In this presentation, I will explore the benefits of these platforms...
We have designed several school scientific activities on central topics in the curriculum of classical mechanics about translational and rotational motions, available at http://www.fep.if.usp.br/~fisfoto. They were developed in a model-theoretical view of science, using videos of experimental arrangements showing the movement of an object next to an instrument to measure its position. Sets of...
The experiment of a cylinder rolled on a string that falls vertically while unrolling is used to contextualize the teaching of the equation of motion of a body that turns around an axis with fixed orientation. The activity with students is led on the model-theoretical framework of science developed by Giere in the adaptation made by Izquierdo. The students read the position of the cylinder...
Remote laboratories enhance science and engineering education by providing flexible, online experimentation. As part of the OnLabEdu project, a learning arrangement within the Characteristic Curve Remote Lab was developed to explore temperature-dependent resistance using a design-based research approach. An initial evaluation with 18 pre-service teachers assessed autonomy, interest, flow, and...
