Dunnett, K;
Gorman, M;
Bartlett, PA;
(2019)
Assessing 1st year undergraduate physics students' laboratory practices: Seeking to encourage research behaviours.
European Journal of Physics
, 40
(1)
, Article 015702. 10.1088/1361-6404/aaf13b.
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Abstract
Encouraging positive inquiry-focused behaviours within the constraints of a physics teaching laboratory environment can be challenging. Here, we report on an implementation, the ‘working-grade’ (w-grade), designed to directly assess aspects of students’ laboratory practice with the aim of encouraging first year undergraduate students to look beyond the concept of a ‘correct outcome’ to a physics experiment. The w-grade is composed of the five aspects of group work, querying, exploration, attitude and progress which are each marked on a 0, 1, 2, 3 scale. The initial implementation is presented in full as well as a second, simpler variant. The w-grade emphasises and directly rewards inquiry behaviours and students were much more willing to explore the experiments than in previous years.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Assessing 1st year undergraduate physics students' laboratory practices: Seeking to encourage research behaviours |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1088/1361-6404/aaf13b |
| Publisher version: | http://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6404/aaf13b |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © 2018 European Physical Society. As the Version of Record of this article is going to be/has been published on a gold open access basis under a CC BY 3.0 licence, this Accepted Manuscript is available for reuse under a CC BY 3.0 licence immediately. |
| UCL classification: | UCL 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.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10061659 |
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