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American Journal of Physics
written by Leonard Finegold and Charles L. Hartley
Two experiments were introduced in our senior modern physics laboratory to acquaint students with methods of doing complete experiments. In the "design" experiments, students individually chose, planned, designed, and listed all the apparatus, methods, and people required for a real experiment that might take several years to do. In the "ingenuity" experiments, students individually chose, planned, acquired, built, and assembled the apparatus for a relatively simple experiment and analyzed their measurements. We tested, by special laboratory examinations and other methods, if the half-class of students who had done these experiments were better than the half-class that had not.
American Journal of Physics: Volume 40, Issue 1, Pages 28-32
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10.1119/1.1986437
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College Science, Design, Evaluation, Instruction, Laboratory Experiments, Laboratory Procedures, Physics, Teaching Methods
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Metadata instance created June 13, 2005 by Lyle Barbato
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L. Finegold and C. Hartley, , Am. J. Phys. 40 (1), 28 (1972), WWW Document, (https://doi.org/10.1119/1.1986437).
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L. Finegold and C. Hartley, An experiment on experiments in a senior laboratory, Am. J. Phys. 40 (1), 28 (1972), <https://doi.org/10.1119/1.1986437>.
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Finegold, L., & Hartley, C. (1972, January 1). An experiment on experiments in a senior laboratory. Am. J. Phys., 40(1), 28-32. Retrieved October 11, 2024, from https://doi.org/10.1119/1.1986437
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Finegold, Leonard, and Charles L. Hartley. "An experiment on experiments in a senior laboratory." Am. J. Phys. 40, no. 1, (January 1, 1972): 28-32, https://doi.org/10.1119/1.1986437 (accessed 11 October 2024).
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Finegold, Leonard, and Charles L. Hartley. "An experiment on experiments in a senior laboratory." Am. J. Phys. 40.1 (1972): 28-32. 11 Oct. 2024 <https://doi.org/10.1119/1.1986437>.
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