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• W246127674 abstract "Introductory science courses often have laboratory components in which students are required to write formal lab reports as homework. These reports often have problems such as incorrect data analysis, mistaken conclusions, and unclear graphs, all errors that indicate that students often fail to understand the experiments. Plagiarism is also common. To attack these problems, we required students to write lab reports in class, so the exercise was more akin to an examination. We discovered that this method yielded many benefits and considerably reduced the problems with lab reports. Many science courses include a laboratory component in which students perform experiments to apply the course concepts in a laboratory environment. An integral part of scientific experimentation is to disseminate one's findings to others, so students are required to write formal laboratory reports outside of class, detailing the theory, apparatus, procedures, data collection, analysis, and conclusions drawn from their own work. In our physics department, students traditionally were required to write three formal laboratory reports at home during the semester. Over the years, we encountered a number of problems with their reports. For example, reports included erroneous data analysis, redundancy (e.g. repeating procedure in the conclusion), and missing information (e.g. graphs and/ or labels, units, error bars, calculations, error analysis, conclusions etc.). In a few cases, reported measurements were found to be inconsistent with the equipment that was used. For example, mass of a rotating object, in rotational motion experiment, was treated as one kilogram while no such mass was used in the experiment. We also found some instances of plagiarism. It is likely that these problems are common to all lab science courses. These problems arise from a variety of factors: students' lack of understanding of the material, difficulty using lab technology, not finishing their work during the lab because of lengthy experimental procedures, difficulty meeting with the instructor outside of class, and a failure to grasp the importance of truthfulness in scientific reporting. Description Before the in class approach was implemented in 2002, students performed eleven or twelve experiments during the semester and wrote three formal lab reports as homework. In the new approach, students performed only eight or nine experiments and wrote three lab reports in class. We reduced the number of experiments to accommodate the three lab sessions in which the students wrote their reports. Although the students worked in groups of two to three to perform the experiments, they wrote their reports individually. Each student was required to use the data that she/he had collected during the experiment, even if it produced unsatisfactory results. The grade was more dependent on written presentation and less on percent error in the results, as long as the student could provide some justification (e.g., sources of error, limitations of the equipment, unclear instructions about the use of equipment, etc.). Typically, students would write reports on experiments that had yielded reasonable results and involved concepts that enhanced understanding of lecture material and application of multiple skills (e.g. calculations, graphing and use of computer) . During writing sessions, students were allowed to use their laboratory notes and lab manual. (Due to a shortage of computers in the laboratory, students' had to write their drafts by hand.) Their drafts included the title of the experiment, apparatus, theory, observations, data tables, analysis, graphs and conclusions. Students were not allowed to speak to one another, just as though they were taking an examination, but they were allowed to ask the instructor for some guidance. This kind of assistance was allowed because the students had performed their experiments in small groups and therefore sometimes missed bits of information or did not fully understand the use of the lab technology. …" @default.
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