Exploring Undergraduate Students Understanding of Experimental Design

We presented our work on students’ understanding of experimentation at the HBCSE ARM 2020.

We also plan to do a special presentation for CUBE students. Lets organize it!

Here is a brief summary of the work.

  • It is important to note that students have at least thought of designing of experiments as a crucial aspect in experimentation

  • Evenif some parameters were missed out in their drawings, these have been mentioned in their written responses

  • The present study has highlighted students’ difficulties with assigning variables, which is very crucial aspect in experimentation

  • Without a fair understanding of assigning variables for the experiments, students would be doing experiments in just a technical way

  • This disconnect seems apparent in understanding between the parameters that are part of research methodology course with the actual experimentation process that applies these parameters.

  • Even though the research methodology is a theory based course, it is difficult to make the connection unless there is a context of working on experimentation.

  • Nevertheless, CUBE lab provides an opportunity to do hands-on experimentation in the context of curriculum.

  • We need to reflect in ways the students will be prepared to achieve science process skills even when they are working on proto-research in a lab based environment.

We welcome discussion!

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Hello,i would suggest demos of experiment and yeah handling the small experiment to the young students would be so valuable to them!!

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CUBE Home Lab is what the cubists prescribe! CUBE HomeLab is a natural extension, during Lockdown times, of the CUBE Kitchen Labs started by Cubists in normal times all over the coubtry…Looking for @meena @mayur @aashutosh and others to comment on its role in understanding design of scientific experimentation as an extension of cooking…

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