What do they know? Investigating students’ ability to analyse experimental data in secondary physics education

This paper explores students’ ability to analyse and interpret empirical data as inadequate data analysis skills and understandings may contribute to the renowned disappointing outcomes of practical work in secondary school physics. Selected competences, derived from a collection of leading curricula, are explored through interviews and...

A Physics Lab Course in Times of COVID-19

Due to the coronavirus lockdown, home experiments were devised for our first-year physics lab course. In this practitioner contribution we elaborate on the guided inquiries that were set up. Students could carry out the experiments with standard tools available at home, including sensors mobile phones are equipped with. Various design principles...

Open-inquiry experiments using sensors controlled by Arduinos in a pandemic-resilient lab course

In our open-source model of a pandemic-resilient flipped lab course, students pose their own research questions and devise their own physics experiments. Their major instruments are an Arduino and electronic sensors which they choose from the wide and growing selection of inexpensive devices based on solid-state and MEMS technologies. Supported...

Eerstejaarspracticum in tijden van COVID-19

De maatregelen die genomen zijn tegen het verder verspreiden van het COVID-19 en het uitvoeren van academisch practicumonderwijs lijken haaks op elkaar te staan. Practicum via teleconferentie is vrijwel onmogelijk. Door de practicumopdrachten aan te passen zijn we er toch in geslaagd om onze eerstejaarsnatuurkundestudenten (TU Delft) het vak...

Practicum, net even anders

Practicum; dertig leerlingen doen in vijftig minuten allemaal dezelfde handelingen, verzamelen dezelfde data waarbij ze hopelijk tot dezelfde conclusie komen. Het practicum blijft<br/>daarmee wel beperkt tot het zelfstandig data verzamelen en het trekken van die ene conclusie. Kan dat niet anders? Door het centraal delen van data blijft er tijd...

Teaching a hands-on course during corona lockdown: from problems to opportunities

Teaching a hands- and minds-on course, in which feedback is essential in order to learn, is difficult, especially in times of COVID-19 where student progression cannot be monitored directly. During the lockdown period, the workshops of an undergraduate Design Engineering course had to be transferred to the home situation, which required a...

Bouw een demoproef

In het eerstejaars vak Design Engineering voor fysici van Technische Natuurkunde Delft bouwen groepjes studenten voor hun eindopdracht een demonstratieproef die een natuurkundig fenomeen laat zien. Het belangrijkste leerdoel is het in de praktijk leren brengen van natuurkundige kennis via een aangeleerd, gestructureerd ontwerpproces. Veel van de...

Students' ability to analyse empirical data in practical work

Although students in upper secondary education are often asked to carry out practical work independently to a large extent, it is questionable whether they already have the knowledge to do so successfully. This study looks into the data analysis skills students aged 15 should possess according to various curriculum documents and investigates...

Introducing argumentation in inquiry—a combination of five exemplary activities

Successfully carrying out a secondary school physics inquiry requires a considerable amount of procedural and content knowledge. It further requires knowledge of how and why maintaining scientific standards produces the best available answer to the given research question. To this purpose, a series of five inquiry activities was developed and...

Kinetic analysis methods applied to single motor protein trajectories

Molecular motors convert chemical or electrical energy into mechanical displacement, either linear or rotary. Under ideal circumstances, single-molecule measurements can spatially and temporally resolve individual steps of the motor, revealing important properties of the underlying mechanochemical process. Unfortunately, steps are often hard...

An analytical framework for strategic delta planning: negotiating consent for long-term sustainable delta development

Sectoral planning on water, agriculture and urban development has not been able to prevent increased flood risks and environmental degradation in many deltas. Governments conceive strategic delta planning as a promising planning approach and develop strategic delta plans. Such plans are linked to actions and means for implementation in the...

Improvements of the recovery process of raw comp1 out of a hydrocarbon feed mixture by extraction and distillation

Beginselen ontwerpen, planning en organisatie. Syllabus deel 2: Methodisch ontwerpen. Dictaat fc25

Beschrijving van de ontwerpmethode zoals die is onderwezen aan studenten civiele techniek.

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