Teaching and Learning in the Science Laboratory (Science & Technology Education Library)

General Introduction....Pages 1-6
Introduction....Pages 7-8
Varieties of Labwork: A Way of Profiling Labwork Tasks....Pages 9-20
Issues and Questions Regarding the Effectiveness of Labwork....Pages 21-30
Talking Physics in Labwork Contexts - A Category Based Analysis of Videotapes....Pages 31-40
Students’ Understanding of the Nature of Science and its Influence on Labwork....Pages 41-48
Introduction....Pages 49-50
Modelling Activities of Students During a Traditional Labwork....Pages 51-64
Students’ Intellectual Activities During Standard Labwork at Undergraduate Level....Pages 65-78
A Laboratory-based Teaching Learning Sequence on Fluids: Developing Primary Student Teachers’ Conceptual and Procedural Knowledge....Pages 79-90
Development and Evaluation of a Laboratory Course in Physics for Medical Students....Pages 91-104
The Biology Textbook as a Source of Ideas about Scientific Knowledge and Experimental Activity....Pages 105-118
Introduction....Pages 119-120
The Role of Epistemological Information in Open-ended Investigative Labwork....Pages 121-138
The Effectiveness of Mini-projects as a Preparation for Open-ended Investigations....Pages 139-150
Data Interpretation Activities and Students’ Views of the Epistemology of Science during a University Earth Sciences Field Study Course....Pages 151-162
Introduction....Pages 163-163
The Use of Secondary Data in Teaching about Data Analysis in a First Year Undergraduate Biochemistry Course....Pages 165-178
An Investigation of Teaching and Learning about Measurement Data and their Treatment in the Introductory Physics Laboratory....Pages 179-190
Introduction....Pages 191-192
Enhancing the Linking of theoretical Knowledge to Physical Phenomena by Real-time Graphing....Pages 193-204
The Link of Theory and Practice in Traditional and in Computer-based University Laboratory Experiments....Pages 205-218
Computer Tools in the Lab - Effects Linking Theory and Experiment....Pages 219-230
Modelling in Geometrical Optics Using a Microcomputer....Pages 231-242
Evolution of Students’ Reasoning about Microscopic Processes in Electrostatics under the Influence of Interactive Simulations....Pages 243-254