Teaching and Learning in the Science Laboratory

Häftad, Engelska, 2010

Del 16 i serien Contemporary Trends and Issues in Science Education

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Beskrivning

Scope of the book There is an on-going debate regarding the role of labwork in science education, which dates back several decades and which illustrates the conviction and interest of teachers, researchers and policy-makers world-wide in the value of laboratory work for understanding science.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2010-12-09
Mått:155 x 235 x 16 mm
Vikt:429 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Contemporary Trends and Issues in Science Education
Antal sidor:270
Upplaga:2002
Förlag:Springer
ISBN:9789048161713

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Innehållsförteckning

General Introduction.- General Introduction.- Approaching Labwork: Frames and Tools.- Varieties of Labwork: A Way of Profiling Labwork Tasks.- Issues and Questions Regarding the Effectiveness of Labwork.- Talking Physics in Labwork Contexts - A Category Based Analysis of Videotapes.- Students’ Understanding of the Nature of Science and its Influence on Labwork.- Standard Labwork Based on Hands-on Experiments.- Modelling Activities of Students During a Traditional Labwork.- Students’ Intellectual Activities During Standard Labwork at Undergraduate Level.- A Laboratory-based Teaching Learning Sequence on Fluids: Developing Primary Student Teachers’ Conceptual and Procedural Knowledge.- Development and Evaluation of a Laboratory Course in Physics for Medical Students.- The Biology Textbook as a Source of Ideas about Scientific Knowledge and Experimental Activity.- Open-Ended Labwork.- The Role of Epistemological Information in Open-ended Investigative Labwork.- The Effectiveness of Mini-projects as a Preparation for Open-ended Investigations.- Data Interpretation Activities and Students’ Views of the Epistemology of Science during a University Earth Sciences Field Study Course.- Labwork and Data Handling.- The Use of Secondary Data in Teaching about Data Analysis in a First Year Undergraduate Biochemistry Course.- An Investigation of Teaching and Learning about Measurement Data and their Treatment in the Introductory Physics Laboratory.- Labwork Based on Integrated Use of New Information Technology.- Enhancing the Linking of theoretical Knowledge to Physical Phenomena by Real-time Graphing.- The Link of Theory and Practice in Traditional and in Computer-based University Laboratory Experiments.- Computer Tools in the Lab - Effects Linking Theory and Experiment.-Modelling in Geometrical Optics Using a Microcomputer.- Evolution of Students’ Reasoning about Microscopic Processes in Electrostatics under the Influence of Interactive Simulations.