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| Abstract Title: | Developing student attitudes in the first-year physics lab |
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| Abstract: | Learning in the affective domain is an important goal in many undergraduate laboratory courses: e.g., goals that students increase their appreciation of physics as an evidence-based way of understanding the world, and that they increase their self-identity as scientists. Unfortunately, studies have found that students' attitudes about science are difficult to improve. In our "structured quantitative inquiry" first-year physics lab course at UBC, we have introduced several course components specifically targeting students' beliefs about the nature of science and their self-identification as scientists. We use the Colorado Learning Attitudes about Science Survey for Experimental Physics (E-CLASS) to investigate students' differing incoming attitudes, and how these attitudes change through the course. We describe preliminary results for the ~600 students in our course this year, who include a variety of science majors at both honors and non-honors levels. |
| Abstract Type: | Contributed Poster Presentation |
Author/Organizer Information | |
| Primary Contact: |
Linda Strubbe University of British Columbia 6224 Agricultural Road Dept of Physics & Astronomy Vancouver, Non U.S. V6T 1Z1 |
| Co-Author(s) and Co-Presenter(s) |
J. Ives (University of British Columbia) D.A. Bonn (University of British Columbia) N.G. Holmes (Stanford University) |
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