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Direct linkKalender, Z. Yasemin; Stump, Emily; Hubenig, Katelynn; Holmes, N. G. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2021
Instructional physics labs offer students unique opportunities to develop an understanding of experimentation. By transforming labs to be more open ended and experimentation focused, instructors can better support student agency and choice. In this study, we examine students' overall sense of and perceptions about agency in two…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Laboratory Experiments
Quinn, Katherine N.; Kelley, Michelle M.; McGill, Kathryn L.; Smith, Emily M.; Whipps, Zachary; Holmes, N. G. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2020
Instructional labs are being transformed to better reflect authentic scientific practice, often by removing aspects of pedagogical structure to support student agency and decision making. We explored how these changes impact men's and women's participation in group work associated with labs through clustering methods on the quantified behavior of…
Descriptors: Role, Teaching Methods, Science Experiments, Group Behavior
Smith, Emily M.; Holmes, N. G. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2020
The goals for lab instruction are receiving critical attention in the physics education community due to multiple reports and research findings. In this paper, we describe a theoretically motivated scheme to evaluate instructional lab curricula and apply that scheme to three implementations of an electricity and magnetism lab curriculum. The…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Thinking Skills, Physics, Teaching Methods
Holmes, N. G.; Lewandowski, H. J. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2020
Physics lab instruction is evolving in response to changing technology, a desire to better prepare students for diverse careers, and renewed focus from physics education researchers. To prepare researchers to evaluate progress in instructional labs in the future, this study set out to understand the current state of instructional physics labs in…
Descriptors: Physics, Laboratory Experiments, Teaching Methods, Science Instruction
Holmes, N. G.; Bonn, D. A. – Physics Teacher, 2015
In a recent report, the American Association of Physics Teachers has developed an updated set of recommendations for curriculum of undergraduate physics labs. This document focuses on six major themes: constructing knowledge, modeling, designing experiments, developing technical and practical laboratory skills, analyzing and visualizing data, and…
Descriptors: Introductory Courses, Physics, Statistical Analysis, Comparative Analysis
Holmes, N. G.; Kumar, Dhaneesh; Bonn, D. A. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2017
Developing critical thinking skills is a common goal of an undergraduate physics curriculum. How do students make sense of evidence and what do they do with it? In this study, we evaluated students' critical thinking behaviors through their written notebooks in an introductory physics laboratory course. We compared student behaviors in the…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Cues, Instructional Effectiveness, Thinking Skills
