Open-ended versus guided laboratory activities:Impact on students’ beliefs about experimental physics

Improving students’ understanding of the nature of experimental physics is often an explicit or implicit goal of undergraduate laboratory physics courses. However, lab activities in traditional lab courses are typically characterized by highly structured, guided labs that often do not require or enc...

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Main Authors: Bethany R. Wilcox, H. J. Lewandowski
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2016-10-01
Series:Physical Review Physics Education Research
Online Access:http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevPhysEducRes.12.020132