Who does what now? How physics lab instruction impacts student behaviors
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Katherine N. Quinn, Kathryn L. McGill, Michelle M. Kelley, Emily M. Smith, and N. G. Holmes
While laboratory instruction is a cornerstone of physics education, the impact of student behaviours in labs on retention, persistence in the field, and the formation of students' physics identity remains an open question. In this study, we performed in-lab observations of student actions over two semesters in two pedagogically different sections of the same introductory physics course. We used a cluster analysis to identify different categories of student behaviour and analyzed how they correlate with lab structure and gender. We find that, in lab structures which fostered collaborative group work and promoted decision making, there was a task division along gender lines with respect to laptop and equipment usage (and found no such divide among students in guided verification labs).
Physics Education Research Conference 2018
Part of the PER Conference series Washington, DC: August 1-2, 2018
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![]() K. Quinn, K. McGill, M. Kelley, E. Smith, and N. Holmes, Who does what now? How physics lab instruction impacts student behaviors, presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2018, Washington, DC, 2018, <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=14844&DocID=4991>.
![]() Quinn, K., McGill, K., Kelley, M., Smith, E., & Holmes, N. (2018, August 1-2). Who does what now? How physics lab instruction impacts student behaviors. Paper presented at Physics Education Research Conference 2018, Washington, DC. Retrieved February 9, 2025, from https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=14844&DocID=4991
![]() Quinn, K, K. McGill, M. Kelley, E. Smith, and N. Holmes. "Who does what now? How physics lab instruction impacts student behaviors." Paper presented at the Physics Education Research Conference 2018, Washington, DC, August 1-2, 2018. https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=14844&DocID=4991 (accessed 9 February 2025).
![]() Quinn, Katherine N., Kathryn L. McGill, Michelle M. Kelley, Emily M. Smith, and Natasha G. Holmes. "Who does what now? How physics lab instruction impacts student behaviors." Physics Education Research Conference 2018. Washington, DC: 2018. of PER Conference. 9 Feb. 2025 <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=14844&DocID=4991>.
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Series = {PER Conference},
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Year = {2018}
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