Use pre/post attitude surveys with detailed instructor feedback reports as formative assessment for lab course transformation¶

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Description¶

The article recommends administering E-CLASS as a formative assessment tool: all participating instructors receive a detailed feedback report with graphical plots comparing their class to similar-level classes. The authors state their goal is "that by providing an assessment with detailed reports we can encourage the long-term evaluation and refinement of laboratory curricula" and promote reflective teaching practices.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Instructors must be willing to give students credit or extra credit for completing the survey, since low participation occurred where no credit was given

Constraints¶

• The tool measures perceptions of epistemology and expectations, not content learning; response rates can be low without incentives

Target Learners¶

• undergraduate physics students in lab courses

Target Learning Goals¶

• aligning laboratory instruction with the practices of professional research

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Key Sources¶

• Zwickl, B. M., Hirokawa, T., Finkelstein, N., & Lewandowski, H. J. (2013). Development and results from a survey on students views of experiments in lab classes and research. https://arxiv.org/abs/1307.5760. doi:10.48550/arxiv.1307.5760