Session:
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PER: Evaluating Instructional Strategies
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Paper Type:
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Contributed
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Title:
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Developing Assessment Strategies for Laboratory Skills Within the UW-Whitewater Program
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Meeting:
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2016 Winter Meeting: New Orleans, Louisiana |
Location:
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Date:
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Time:
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10:40AM
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Author:
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Steven C. Sahyun, University of Wisconsin - Whitewater
262-473-8224, sahyuns@uww.edu
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Co-Author(s):
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Jalal Nawash, Paul Rybski, Ozgur Yavuzcetin
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Abstract:
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During the summer of 2014, a faculty team developed a student laboratory skills assessment program to be given in the laboratory courses taken by physics majors. We created a program where the assessment instruments, while unique to each course, all followed a theme that students should be able to set up equipment to Acquire some “signal,” Analyze data related to the signal, and Assimilate the results by communicating results in a manner consistent with departmental goals. We call the evaluation of students’ ability for Acquisition, Analysis and Assimilation our “AAA” activities. This talk is a report on the results from initial implementation in our courses over the past year and an update on the progress made to develop a consistent set of laboratory skills assessment rubrics across the intermediate and advanced laboratory courses in the UW-Whitewater physics program.
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Footnotes:
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None
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Presentation:
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AAPT WM16 AE05 Sahyun 1601010.pdf
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