Within the undergraduate physics curriculum, students' primary exposure to experimental
physics comes from laboratory courses. Thus, as experimentation is a core component of …

Lab instruction has historically been a cornerstone of physics education (see the article by
Valerie Otero and David Meltzer, Physics Today, May 2017, page 50), but the large amounts …

Instructional labs are widely seen as a unique, albeit expensive, way to teach scientific
content. We measured the effectiveness of introductory lab courses at achieving this …

Physics laboratory courses have been generally acknowledged as an important component
of the undergraduate curriculum, particularly with respect to develo** students' interest in …

The main aim of the present study is to determine the influence of a Jigsaw method based
on cooperative learning and a confirmatory laboratory method on prospective science …

This study aims to enhance critical thinking skill through science context-based inquiry
learning (SCOIL). This study is a quasi-experimental research with pretest and posttest …

[This paper is part of the Focused Collection on Instructional labs: Improving traditions and
new directions.] In recent years, physics instructional labs have been under considerable …

Over the last decade, course-based undergraduate research experiences (CUREs) have
been recognized as a way to improve undergraduate science, technology, engineering, and …

Instructional physics labs offer students unique opportunities to develop an understanding of
experimentation. By transforming labs to be more open ended and experimentation focused …

Physics lab instructors were forced to adapt their courses in 2020 due to the COVID-19
pandemic. We investigate the impact these changes had on student views towards …