TY - JOUR
AU - E. Teichmann
AU - H. Lewandowski
AU - M. Alemani
AB - <jats:title>Abstract</jats:title>
<p><jats:p>Physics laboratory courses (PLC) have been recently the topic of several research studies examining their effectiveness at reaching their goals. As a result, a discussion about the effectiveness of traditional PLC for students’ content knowledge, skills, and “expert-thinking” acquisition has developed. Critical for the investigation of students learning in those settings has been the development of research-based assessments tools. An example of those is the Colorado Learning Attitudes about Science Survey for Experimental Physics (E-CLASS). Recently, we translated the E-CLASS into German and set up a centralized survey administration system for instructors, allowing data acquisition and automated data analysis. Previously, we described this process and presented the preliminary results of the study of the introductory PLC at the University of Potsdam (UP). Here, we present an extended study that allows us to make stronger conclusions about students’ views about experimental physics at the UP. Overall, we find that students at US institutions have a higher level of “expert-like” views than students at the UP.</jats:p></p>

BT - Journal of Physics: Conference Series
DO - 10.1088/1742-6596/2750/1/012013
IS - 1
N2 - <jats:title>Abstract</jats:title>
<p><jats:p>Physics laboratory courses (PLC) have been recently the topic of several research studies examining their effectiveness at reaching their goals. As a result, a discussion about the effectiveness of traditional PLC for students’ content knowledge, skills, and “expert-thinking” acquisition has developed. Critical for the investigation of students learning in those settings has been the development of research-based assessments tools. An example of those is the Colorado Learning Attitudes about Science Survey for Experimental Physics (E-CLASS). Recently, we translated the E-CLASS into German and set up a centralized survey administration system for instructors, allowing data acquisition and automated data analysis. Previously, we described this process and presented the preliminary results of the study of the introductory PLC at the University of Potsdam (UP). Here, we present an extended study that allows us to make stronger conclusions about students’ views about experimental physics at the UP. Overall, we find that students at US institutions have a higher level of “expert-like” views than students at the UP.</jats:p></p>

PB - IOP Publishing
PY - 2024
EP - 012013
T2 - Journal of Physics: Conference Series
TI - Assessing students’ views about experimental physics in a German laboratory course
VL - 2750
SN - 1742-6588, 1742-6596
ER -