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| Abstract Title: | Student Engagement with Modeling in Multi-Week Student-Designed Lab Projects |
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| Abstract: | Modeling is an important skill in experimental physics and thus a learning outcome of many laboratory classes. One promising approach to help students develop modeling skills is to incorporate multi-week student-designed projects within lab courses. In order to assess the potential benefits of these projects towards students' modeling abilities, we analyze student coursework and interviews in three upper-division lab courses at different institutions. We present a descriptive analysis of student engagement with modeling in student-designed course projects. We find that the projects in our dataset vary widely with different degrees of modeling and different ways model construction and revision appear as parts of the projects. We additionally investigate how the student engagement depends on features of the projects and observe correlations between features of the projects and the ways the students construct models and enact revisions. |
| Abstract Type: | Contributed Poster Presentation |
| Session Time: | Poster Session 1 Room A |
| Poster Number: | 1A-15 |
Author/Organizer Information | |
| Primary Contact: |
Victoria Borish University of Colorado Boulder and JILA |
| Co-Author(s) and Co-Presenter(s) |
Jessica R. Hoehn, University of Colorado Boulder and JILA H. J. Lewandowski, University of Colorado Boulder and JILA |
