Acting like a physicist: Student approach study to experimental design

National studies of science education have unanimously concluded that preparing our students for the demands of the 21st century workplace is one of the major goals. This paper describes a study of student activities in introductory college physics labs, which were designed to help students acquire...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Anna Karelina, Eugenia Etkina
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2007-10-01
Series:Physical Review Special Topics. Physics Education Research
Online Access:http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevSTPER.3.020106