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Session:
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Introductory Physics for the Life Sciences (IPLS)
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Paper Type:
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Poster
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Title:
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Shifts in Student Attitudes in IPLS Labs
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Meeting:
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2019 Summer Meeting: Provo, UT |
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Location:
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N/A |
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Date:
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Time:
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10:00AM
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Author:
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Claudia De Grandi, University of Utah
801 581 4826, degrandi@physics.utah.edu
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Co-Author(s):
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Jason M. May, Jordan M. Gerton, Lauren Barth-Cohen
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Abstract:
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There has been a shift in undergraduate labs towards emphases on the explorative and collaborative dimensions of science. Following this trend, the University of Utah has recently adopted a revised format of the National Experiment in Undergraduate Science Education (NEXUS) IPLS Introductory Labs. Here we focus on data from the second semester of this lab sequence. Specifically, we have collected student responses to an end-of-semester anonymous surveys that addresses mindset, attitude towards challenges and group work. We report the survey results and observations for two semesters of implementations of the lab. In particular, we observed positive shifts in student attitudes towards two main components of the course: learning from/in the process independently from simply getting a final answer, and learning to work efficiently in different groups. These results inform how to effectively promote engagement of life-science students in introductory physics labs and student-initiated connections between physics and life-sciences.
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Footnotes:
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None
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Presentation:
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CDG_poster AAPT_2019.pdf
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