Teaching and learning in the science laboratory /
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| Imprint: | Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, c2002. |
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| Description: | ix, 267 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Science & technology education library ; v. 16 |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4842336 |
Table of Contents:
- General Introduction
- Chapter 1. Approaching Labwork: Frames and Tools
- Introduction
- Varieties of Labwork: A Way of Profiling Labwork Tasks
- Issues and Questions Regarding the Effectiveness of Labwork
- Talking Physics in Labwork Contexts - A Category Based Analysis of Videotapes
- Students' Understanding of the Nature of Science and its Influence on Labwork
- Chapter 2. Standard Labwork Based on Hands-on Experiments
- Introduction
- Modelling Activities of Students during a Traditional Labwork
- Students' Intellectual Activities during Standard Labwork at Undergraduate Level
- A Laboratory-Based Teaching Learning Sequence on Fluids: Developing Primary Student Teachers' Conceptual and Procedural Knowledge
- Development and Evaluation of a Laboratory Course in Physics for Medical Students
- The Biology Textbook as a Source of Ideas about Scientific Knowledge and Experimental Activity
- Chapter 3. Open-Ended Labwork
- Introduction
- The Role of Epistemological Information in open-ended Investigative Labwork
- The Effectiveness of Mini-Projects as a Preparation for open-ended Investigations
- Data Interpretation Activities and Students' Views of the Epistemology of Science during a University Earth Sciences Field Study Course
- Chapter 4. Labwork and Data Handling
- Introduction
- The Use of secondary Data in Teaching about Data Analysis in a First Year Undergraduate Biochemistry Course
- An Investigation of Teaching and Learning about Measurement Data and their Treatment in the Introductory Physics Laboratory
- Chapter 5. Labwork Based on Integrated Use of New Information Technology
- Introduction
- Enhancing the Linking of Theoretical Knowledge to Physical Phenomena by Real-Time Graphing
- The Link of Theory and Practice in Traditional and in Computer-Based University Laboratory Experiments
- Computer Tools in the Lab--Effects Linking Theory and Experiment
- Modelling in Geometrical Optics Using a Microcomputer
- Evolution of Students' Reasoning about Microscopic Processes in Electrostatics under the Influence of Interactive Simulations
- Epilogue
- Towards Targeted Labwork
- Authors
- Index
