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Seeking Feedback for Project Labs |
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While we often ask our students to incorporate our feedback to make their reports and talks stronger, we so rarely are afforded the same opportunity. I would love to submit a poster soliciting feedback from other lab instructors on a new lab we have developed and deployed in the last year.
This past year we transitioned the labs associated with our Waves and Oscillations sophomore-level course to focus on experimental design, with an emphasis on iteration. To that end we offer 3 set labs. Then in the fourth lab students develop their own experiment. We provide a list of supplies, including several demo setups, and ask students to write a motivation, experimental method, and collect and process at least one dataset.
They then pass those three deliverables off to another student group, normally in the same lab section, who then performs that lab for the fifth and final lab. Those students then provide written feedback to the students who wrote the lab, who then submit a final lab guide that includes all of the above information, and a theoretical introduction.
My questions for the community are manifold, and I welcome comments outside of these questions, but here are some of my initial questions
Is there specific scaffolding I should be focusing on?
Do the deliverables for the first seem enough, or should I be modifying them?
Are there learning goals associated with asking students to perform as both student and lab instructor?
I also wish to acknowledge the privilege inherent in taking up space in this manner, and if anyone wants feedback on any labs I would be happy to provide some. My email is ldana@wpi.edu, and I understand what it is to exist where most of the feedback one receives is that either "did not like it, but nothing specific to say" (students) or "looks fine" (professors). |
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Poster
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Author/Organizer Information |
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Lauren Dana
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Worcester, MA 01602
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