Teaching and Learning in the Science Laboratory

by Psillos, Dimitris; Niedderer, Hans

• ISBN13: 9781402010187
• ISBN10: 1402010184
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-04-01
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Pub

Summary

This book includes an edited collection of papers containing illustrations of teaching approaches and of students' learning acquisitions in the science teaching laboratory, presentation of new evaluation tools, theoretical frames and positions concerning laboratory work. The aim of the book is both to improve the design and organisation of innovative laboratory practices and to provide tools and exemplary results for the evaluation of their effectiveness, adequate for labwork in order to promote students' scientific understanding in a variety of countries. The book focuses the discussion on the role of labwork in upper secondary and in higher education. The papers are based on research and developmental work carried out in five European countries in the context of the European Project "Labwork in Science Education" (LSE), which was funded by the European Union, and provide a unique framework for gaining deeper insights into the role of experimentation in science teaching and learning in a variety of contexts. This substantial and significant body of research is now made available in English.

Table of Contents

General Introduction	1	(6)
Approaching Labwork: Frames and Tools
Introduction	7	(2)
Varieties of Labwork: A Way of Profiling Labwork Tasks	9	(12)
Robin Millar
Andree Tiberghien
Jean-Francois Le Marechal
Issues and Questions Regarding the Effectiveness of Labwork	21	(10)
Dimitris Psillos
Hans Niedderer
Talking Physics in Labwork Contexts - A Category Based Analysis of Videotapes	31	(10)
Hans Niedderer
Stefan v. Aufschnaiter
Andree Tiberghien
Christian Buty
Kerstin Haller
Lorenz Hucke
Florian Sander
Hans Fischer
Students' Understanding of the Nature of Science and its Influence on Labwork	41	(8)
John Leach
Standard Labwork Based on Hands-On Experiments
Introduction	49	(2)
Modelling Activities of Students during a Traditional Labwork	51	(14)
Karine Becu-Robinault
Students' Intellectual Activities during Standard Labwork at Undergraduate Level	65	(14)
Michel Beney
Marie-Genevieve Sere
A Laboratory-Based Teaching Learning Sequence on Fluids: Developing Primary Student Teachers' Conceptual and Procedural Knowledge	79	(12)
Petros Kariotoglou
Development and Evaluation of a Laboratory Course in Physics for Medical Students	91	(14)
Heike Theyßen
Dieter Schumacher
Stefan v. Aufschnaiter
The Biology Textbook as a Source of Ideas about Scientific Knowledge and Experimental Activity	105	(14)
Milena Bandiera
Open-Ended Labwork
Introduction	119	(2)
The Role of Epistemological Information in open-ended Investigative Labwork	121	(18)
Alain Guillon
Marie-Genevieve Sere
The Effectiveness of Mini-Projects as a Preparation for open-ended Investigations	139	(12)
Jenny Lewis
Data Interpretation Activities and Students' Views of the Epistemology of Science during a University Earth Sciences Field Study Course	151	(12)
Jim Ryder
Labwork and Data Handling
Introduction	163	(2)
The Use of secondary Data in Teaching about Data Analysis in a First Year Undergraduate Biochemistry Course	165	(14)
John Leach
An Investigation of Teaching and Learning about Measurement Data and their Treatment in the Introductory Physics Laboratory	179	(12)
Dimitris Evangelinos
Dimitris Psillos
Odysseas Valassiades
Labwork Based on Integrated Use of New Information Technology
Introduction	191	(2)
Enhancing the Linking of Theoretical Knowledge to Physical Phenomena by Real-Time Graphing	193	(12)
Garabet Bisdikian
Dimitris Psillos
The Link of Theory and Practice in Traditional and in Computer-Based University Laboratory Experiments	205	(14)
Lorenz Hucke
Hans E. Fischer
Computer Tools in the Lab--Effects Linking Theory and Experiment	219	(12)
Florian Sander
Horst Schecker
Hans Niedderer
Modelling in Geometrical Optics Using a Microcomputer	231	(12)
Christian Buty
Evolution of Students' Reasoning about Microscopic Processes in Electrostatics under the Influence of Interactive Simulations	243	(12)
Alexandros Barbas
Dimitris Psillos
EPILOGUE
Towards Targeted Labwork	255	(5)
Marie-Genevieve Sere
Authors	260	(6)
Index	266