Students' and Instructor's Impressions of Ill-structured Capstone Projects in an Advanced Electronics Lab
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Nasser M. Juma, Elizabeth Gire, Kristan Corwin, Brian Washburn, and N. Sanjay Rebello
During spring 2010 six students enrolled in an advanced electronics lab worked in pairs on ill-structured capstone projects. They designed electronic circuitry to automate experiments that were completed in a previous advanced physics lab. Some ill-structured features of these capstone projects included open-ended goals, limited guidance from the instructor and the possibility of multiple solution paths. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with both the students and the instructor of the class, before and after the students worked on these ill-structured capstone projects to gauge the participants' expectations of the projects before they began and their views about these projects after they were completed. We report on the pre- and post-project impressions of the students and instructors regarding this ill-structured learning experience.
Physics Education Research Conference 2010
Part of the PER Conference series
Portland, Oregon: July 21-22, 2010
Volume 1289, Pages 181-184
<a href="https://advlabs.aapt.org/items/detail.cfm?ID=12739">Juma, N, E. Gire, K. Corwin, B. Washburn, and N. Rebello. "Students' and Instructor's Impressions of Ill-structured Capstone Projects in an Advanced Electronics Lab." Paper presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2010, Portland, Oregon, July 21-22, 2010.</a>
N. Juma, E. Gire, K. Corwin, B. Washburn, and N. Rebello, , presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2010, Portland, Oregon, 2010, WWW Document, (https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=12739&DocID=3284).
N. Juma, E. Gire, K. Corwin, B. Washburn, and N. Rebello, Students' and Instructor's Impressions of Ill-structured Capstone Projects in an Advanced Electronics Lab, presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2010, Portland, Oregon, 2010, <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=12739&DocID=3284>.
Juma, N., Gire, E., Corwin, K., Washburn, B., & Rebello, N. (2010, July 21-22). Students' and Instructor's Impressions of Ill-structured Capstone Projects in an Advanced Electronics Lab. Paper presented at Physics Education Research Conference 2010, Portland, Oregon. Retrieved December 13, 2024, from https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=12739&DocID=3284
Juma, N, E. Gire, K. Corwin, B. Washburn, and N. Rebello. "Students' and Instructor's Impressions of Ill-structured Capstone Projects in an Advanced Electronics Lab." Paper presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2010, Portland, Oregon, July 21-22, 2010. https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=12739&DocID=3284 (accessed 13 December 2024).
Juma, Nasser, Elizabeth Gire, Kristan Corwin, Brian Washburn, and N. Sanjay Rebello. "Students' and Instructor's Impressions of Ill-structured Capstone Projects in an Advanced Electronics Lab." Physics Education Research Conference 2010. Portland, Oregon: 2010. 181-184 Vol. 1289 of PER Conference. 13 Dec. 2024 <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=12739&DocID=3284>.
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Author = "Nasser Juma and Elizabeth Gire and Kristan Corwin and Brian Washburn and N. Sanjay Rebello",
Title = {Students' and Instructor's Impressions of Ill-structured Capstone Projects in an Advanced Electronics Lab},
BookTitle = {Physics Education Research Conference 2010},
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