Session:
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Experimental Design at All Levels
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Paper Type:
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Contributed
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Title:
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Goal-Focused Design in an Introductory Lab Course
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Meeting:
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2018 Summer Meeting: Washington, DC |
Location:
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Date:
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Time:
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1:40PM
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Author:
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Nathan D. Powers,, Brigham Young University,
8014225393, ndp5@byu.edu
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Co-Author(s):
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None
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Abstract:
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An important part of design is maintaining an understanding of and focus on the goals of a project. This comes more naturally when students set and seek to accomplish their own goals. I have adapted an introductory lab course to include significantly more student design, including a culminating student-designed project for which both the goals and design are chosen by the student. Each week students attend a workshop which allows them to separate design and implementation. In the workshops, students can compartmentalize pieces of the overall design, set incremental goals, and design around those goals in a collaborative environment.
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Footnotes:
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None
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Presentation:
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sm2018_PowersN.pdf
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