TY - JOUR
AU - Jessica Hoehn
AU - Heather Lewandowski
AB - Scientific writing, in the form of lab notebooks, proposals, and reports, is a common element of physics lab classes. Multiweek student-designed projects are growing in popularity, especially in advanced lab courses, and writing may play a unique role in these types of courses. In prior work, we developed a framework of possible goals for writing in physics lab classes. Here, we use that framework as a lens through which to view three different advanced lab courses that include student-designed projects. We conduct a multiple case-study analysis to investigate how these courses incorporate writing to address various goals. We find that both the timescale and the open-ended nature of projects present unique opportunities for having students engage in authentic writing practices.
BT - Physical Review Physics Education Research
DA - 2020-12
DO - 10.1103/physrevphyseducres.16.020161
IS - 2
N2 - Scientific writing, in the form of lab notebooks, proposals, and reports, is a common element of physics lab classes. Multiweek student-designed projects are growing in popularity, especially in advanced lab courses, and writing may play a unique role in these types of courses. In prior work, we developed a framework of possible goals for writing in physics lab classes. Here, we use that framework as a lens through which to view three different advanced lab courses that include student-designed projects. We conduct a multiple case-study analysis to investigate how these courses incorporate writing to address various goals. We find that both the timescale and the open-ended nature of projects present unique opportunities for having students engage in authentic writing practices.
PB - American Physical Society (APS)
PY - 2020
SE - 020161
EP - 020161
T2 - Physical Review Physics Education Research
TI - Incorporating writing in advanced lab projects: A multiple case-study analysis
UR - https://journals.aps.org/prper/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevPhysEducRes.16.020161
VL - 16
SN - 2469-9896
ER -