A4 Article in conference proceedings
A framework for designing experimental tasks in contemporary physics lab courses (2024)

Lahme, S. Z., Pirinen, P., Rončević, L., Lehtinen, A., Sušac, A., Müller, A., & Klein, P. (2024). A framework for designing experimental tasks in contemporary physics lab courses. In GIREP Conference 2022 : Effective Learning in Physics from Contemporary Physics to Remote Settings (Article 012016). IOP Publishing. Journal of Physics : Conference Series, 2750. https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/2750/1/012016

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All authors or editors: Lahme, Simon Z.; Pirinen, Pekka; Rončević, Lucija; Lehtinen, Antti; Sušac, Ana; Müller, Andreas; Klein, Pascal

Parent publication: GIREP Conference 2022 : Effective Learning in Physics from Contemporary Physics to Remote Settings

Place and date of conference: Ljubljana, Slovenia, 4.7.-8.7.2022

Journal or series: Journal of Physics : Conference Series

ISSN: 1742-6588

eISSN: 1742-6596

Publication year: 2024

Publication date: 01/04/2024

Number in series: 2750

Article number: 012016

Publisher: IOP Publishing

Publication country: United Kingdom

Publication language: English

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/2750/1/012016

Publication open access: Openly available

Publication channel open access: Open Access channel

Publication is parallel published (JYX): https://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/95067

Web address of parallel published publication (pre-print): https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.14464

Abstract

While lab courses are an integral part of studying physics aiming at a huge variety of learning objectives, research has shown that typical lab courses do not reach all the desired goals. While diverse approaches by lab instructors and researchers try to increase the effectiveness of lab courses, experimental tasks remain the core of any lab course. To keep an overview of these developments and to give instructors (and researchers) a guideline for their own professional efforts at hand, we introduce a research-informed framework for designing experimental tasks in contemporary physics lab courses. In addition, we demonstrate within the scope of the EU-co-funded DigiPhysLab project how the framework can be used to characterize existing or develop new high-quality experimental tasks for physics lab courses.

Keywords: physics; laboratory work; higher education (teaching); learning objectives

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