Conveners
M-PLEN1 - Plenary Session | Session plénière - Natasha Holmes, Cornell
- Daria Ahrensmeier
Natasha Holmes
(Cornell University)
27/05/2024, 09:00
Herzberg Public and Plenary Talks / Conférenciers des sessions Herzberg et plénières
Invited Speaker / Conférencier(ère) invité(e)
What is the purpose of an introductory physics lab? Often instructional labs are structured such that students perform experiments to observe or discover classic physics phenomena. In this talk, I’ll present data that questions this goal and argues for transforming labs to focus instead on the skills and understandings of experimental physics. I’ll provide several examples of...