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On the use of a meta-report as instruction for how to write a lab report. |
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This contribution describes a method to help students in a project-based physics lab course in the second year of a physics major program at the university to write reports according to the IMRAD model. The usual situation is that there is a separate description of what the different sections, for example the abstract or the method section, of a (technical) report should contain. Our experience is that it is often peculiarly difficult for the students to interpret these instructions, which leads to a lot of questions regarding the report writing itself to us teachers. Instead, we have created a Meta Report according to the IMRAD model where the various IMRAD sections do not contain any physics but only detailed information about what is expected to be found in the IMRAD sections of the actual student reports. This may seem like a subtle difference compared to the previous separate instructions, but the Meta Report method has resulted in a clear reduction in the number of the questions we get from students regarding the writing of the reports. In fact, they have largely ceased.
N.B. The same content will presented at the AAPT Summer Meeting 23 |
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Poster
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Lars Hellberg
Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Gothenburg, Sweden, Non U.S. 41296
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