Student decision making in undergraduate physics laboratories

dc.contributor.advisorNewling, Benedict
dc.contributor.authorTrojand, Daniel
dc.date.accessioned2025-06-04T18:31:33Z
dc.date.available2025-06-04T18:31:33Z
dc.date.issued2025-03
dc.description.abstractWith recent changes made to introductory laboratory curriculum, we set out to determine the success of these changes and consequentially see if students were building the experimental skills and habits we intended to teach in their program. Surveys, laboratory notebook and report coding, and interviews were carried out to see what elements are important to incorporate in laboratory exercises. We found that explicit instruction is required for our students to learn a laboratory skill, skills are not carried forward to the following course unless explicit requirement is included in the subsequent course via instruction, our students need to practice a skills more than once, and the participants of our study do not have a complete mental model of experimental physics after completing their laboratory program.
dc.description.copyright© Daniel Trojand, 2025
dc.format.extentxii, 216
dc.format.mediumelectronic
dc.identifier.urihttps://unbscholar.lib.unb.ca/handle/1882/38311
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherUniversity of New Brunswick
dc.rightshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2
dc.subject.disciplinePhysics
dc.titleStudent decision making in undergraduate physics laboratories
dc.typedoctoral thesis
oaire.license.conditionother
thesis.degree.disciplinePhysics
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of New Brunswick
thesis.degree.leveldoctorate
thesis.degree.namePh.D.

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