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| Abstract Title: | Analyzing laboratory teaching practices through the lens of student ownership |
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| Abstract: | We report preliminary findings from a study focused on students' sense of ownership of multi-week experimental physics projects in upper-division labs. Our research team models ownership as a relationship between students and their projects that evolves over time. Ownership-style relationships are characterized by students making their own contributions to the project, developing their own understanding of the project topic, and having complex emotional responses to progress on the project. We conducted interviews with instructors from five Western and Midwestern universities. During interviews, we asked participants to describe which teaching methods they use and why they use them, describe their own conception of ownership, and provide examples of instances where students seemed to have demonstrated ownership of their projects. In this presentation, we discuss our research goals and processes, and we present preliminary findings about the alignment of lab instructors' self-reported teaching practices and students' sense of project ownership. |
| Abstract Type: | Contributed Poster Presentation |
| Session Time: | Poster Session 1 Room C |
| Poster Number: | 1C-7 |
Author/Organizer Information | |
| Primary Contact: |
Reginald Hart Western Washington University Bellingham, WA 98225 |
| Co-Author(s) and Co-Presenter(s) |
Ira Ché Lassen, Western Washington University; Andrea L. Wooley, Western Washington University; Laura Ríos, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo; Heather J. Lewandowski, University of Colorado Boulder; Dimitri R. Dounas-Frazer, Western Washington University |
