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Klassen, Stephen; Niaz, Mansoor; Metz, Don; McMillan, Barbara; Dietrich, Sarah – Science & Education, 2012
The literature on the pedagogical aspects of the photoelectric effect as used in the undergraduate student laboratory shows that little research has been done in this area. Our current study is an analysis of the instructions in 38, electronically published laboratory manuals for the photoelectric effect. The analyses were based on history and…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Textbooks, Physics, Laboratory Manuals
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Turner, Steven C. – Science & Education, 2012
Between 1880 and 1920 the way science was taught in American High Schools changed dramatically. The old "lecture/demonstration" method, where information was presented to essentially passive students, was replaced by the "laboratory" method, where students performed their own experiments in specially constructed student laboratories. National…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Laboratory Manuals, Science Instruction, Science Education