Students' adaptation to a new situation: the design of an experimental procedure
Year: 2007
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: Different studies (Arce and Betancourt, 1997; Séré, 2002) emphasize the importance of the task of experimental procedure design in a learning context. However, the required design is a difficult task for students (Séré and Beney, 1997). Consequently, students are hardly ever allowed to design their own experiment. The study by Tiberghien et al. (2001) showed that “to learn how to plan an investigation in order to address a specific question or problem” was the least frequent process objective. Although this paper does not focus on direct learning gains, there are reasons to believe that design activities contribute to learning (Hmelo et al., 2000). During a labwork session, students were asked to design an experiment. The aim of this research is to analyse the changes in the students' activity when they have to design an experiment and observe how they handle with these changes. In this paper we will first characterize the situation and then analyse the adaptation to this new situation.
Source: HAL
Authors: Girault, Isabelle, d'Ham, Cedric, Cross, David
Institution: Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble
Language: English
Subfield: Education
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2749685249