SAMOP 2023 – wissenschaftliches Programm
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DD: Fachverband Didaktik der Physik
DD 31: Praktika und neue Praktikumsversuche
DD 31.3: Vortrag
Dienstag, 7. März 2023, 11:40–12:00, DD 110
Investigating students' views about experimental physics in German laboratory classes — •Micol Alemani1, Erik Teichmann1, and Heather J. Lewandowski2,3 — 1Institut für Physik und Astronomie Universität Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany — 2Department of Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA — 3JILA, National Institute of Standards and Technology and University of Colorado, Boulder, USA
Among the large variety of learning goals in physics laboratory courses, an often implicit but crucial aspect is to develop students' views and attitudes about experimental physics to align with practicing experimental physicists. With this explicit goal in mind, we have transformed our laboratory courses at the University of Potsdam (UP) to provide students with an authentic laboratory experience. Our course transformation was assessed using a new, German version of the Colorado Learning Attitudes Science Survey for Experimental Physics (E-CLASS). The E-CLASS is a research-based and internationally widely used test that assesses students' beliefs and attitudes about the nature of experimental physics. In this talk, we present how we translated the E-CLASS into German (creating the so-called GE-CLASS) and set-up a centralized automated system for instructors. Such a system allows laboratory instructors of European German speaking countries to easily use the E-CLASS to assess the impact of their courses along this one dimension of learning. First results using the GE-CLASS at UP are presented. A comparison between the international E-CLASS and GE-CLASS results for physics-major students is discussed.