Title
The Development of Online-Writing Intensive Physics Laboratories
Document Type
Grant Proposal
Date Accepted
Summer 2007
Project Description/Abstract
In recent years, traditional “cookbook” style physics labs with standard lab reports have given way to conceptual learning activities designed to stress specific learning blocks identified in Physics Education Research (PER). While this new approach addresses identified problems in learning, it is very repetitive and loses much of the writing and experimental design components present in traditional labs. I will develop a new approach to introductory lab instruction utilizing writing to learn (WTL) and online, interactive feedback during the lab period. Specifically, I will design four pilot laboratories to be used in the second, fifth, eighth, and twelfth weeks in introductory algebra and calculus-based physics (Physics 181 and 243). This approach is novel and new to the physics education community, and it promises to utilize BSC’s strengths in physics education, WTL, and online pedagogy as springboards to a new national model.
Recommended Citation
Kling, Thomas P. (2007). The Development of Online-Writing Intensive Physics Laboratories. CARS Summer Grants. Item 75.
https://vc.bridgew.edu/summer_grant/75