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Abstract Title: | Modern Physics Laboratory Students' Ideas about Physics |
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Abstract: | Laboratory courses in modern physics are often the first opportunities students have to experiment with specialized measurement instrumentation, conduct independent investigations in a community environment, and exercise skills they are likely to use in contemporary physics research. As such, it is worth examining students' ideas about doing physics in this context; this study does so using beginning- and end-of-semester semi-structured interviews. I will present interview results and discussion regarding students' ideas about experimenting, research skills, careers in physics, and experiences that make them feel like physicists. |
Abstract Type: | Contributed Poster Presentation |
Session Time: | Poster Session I |
Poster Number: | A15 |
Author/Organizer Information | |
Primary Contact: |
Helen Mae Cothrel Eastern Michigan Universty/Kettering University Flint, MI |
Co-Author(s) and Co-Presenter(s) |
Dr. Jonathan Skuza, Eastern Michigan University |