New Perspectives in Science Education
Exploring Changes in Students’ Understanding the Basic Concepts of Data Analysis in Introductory Laboratory Course “Search for Physics Laws”
Oksana Lozovenko, Offenburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany National University “Zaporizhzhia Polytechnic”, Ukraine (Ukraine)
Dominik Giel, Offenburg University of Applied Sciences Badstr. 24 77652 Offenburg Germany (Germany)
Abstract
Laboratory courses have always been one of the most important components of university science courses. It is expected that first-year engineering students will acquire basic skills to deal with experimental data after such a course. This ability to generate knowledge using experiments they could and should use later in subsequent courses. However, a number of pedagogical researches revealed that most students do not master the necessary skills (see, for example, [1-3]). As one possible way to solve this problem, the course “Search for Physics Laws” was presented in previous publications [4-5]. This course is based on the theory of the gradual formation of mental actions and can be put into educational practice by using different laboratory equipment. Evaluation of the course showed that the organized in the new way laboratory sessions have been more effective than traditional laboratory sessions [6]. In this work, we consider in detail how students’ understanding of the basic concepts of error analysis has changed over the course.
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Keywords |
systematic construction of mental actions, laboratory course, analysis of experimental data, physics law |
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