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  Session: Introductory Labs/Apparatus
  Paper Type: Contributed
  Title: Transformation of Experimental Physics 1 at CU Boulder*
  Meeting: 2018 Summer Meeting: Washington, DC
  Location: N/A
  Date:
  Time: 8:30AM
  Author: Daniel R. Bolton,, University of Colorado Boulder,
303-492-7368, daniel.bolton@colorado.edu
  Co-Author(s): None
  Abstract: By multiple measures, the introductory "Experimental Physics" course at CU Boulder was not meeting expectations and the department sought a re-design. We will discuss the multi-year process of this re-design (the new course was taught for the first time in spring '18). Although some specifics of the new course will be presented, emphasis will be on the process of the re-design. A series of interviews, surveys, and round table discussions produced learning goals, many of which required a different approach than the traditional introductory lab. The learning goals influenced course structure and activity choices. We will transit lessons learned about course transformation in general, and discuss the successes of failures of the new course. *This work was supported in part by the TRESTLE program with funding from the NSF (DUE 1525331).
  Footnotes: *This work was supported in part by the TRESTLE program with funding from the NSF (DUE 1525331).
  Presentation: sm2018_Transformation of Experimental Physics I at CU Boulder.pdf

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