Evaluating instructional labs’ use of deliberate practice to teach critical thinking skills

• Published in: Physical review. Physics education research Vol. 16; no. 2; pp. 020150 - 20166
• Main Authors: Smith, Emily M., Holmes, N. G.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: College Park American Physical Society 04.12.2020
• Subjects: Context; Critical Thinking; Curricula; Curriculum Design; Decision analysis; Decision Making; Energy; Experimentation; Instructional Effectiveness; Introductory Courses; Laboratory Experiments; Magnetism; Personal Autonomy; Physics; Science Education; Science Instruction; Skills; Teachers; Teaching Methods; Thinking Skills

The goals for lab instruction are receiving critical attention in the physics education community due to multiple reports and research findings. In this paper, we describe a theoretically motivated scheme to evaluate instructional lab curricula and apply that scheme to three implementations of an el...