The ability to engage in evidence-based decision making is an important outcome of modern education. Over the past decade, we have developed and evaluated a lab curriculum, Inquiry for Student Thinking, Analytics, and Reasoning (iSTAR), which explicitly promotes essential reasoning abilities for scientific inquiry and critical thinking. All activities are grounded in a curricular framework based on operationally defined reasoning sub-skills; including controlling variables in multi-variable contexts, data analytics, and causal reasoning. Due to the pandemic, we have redeveloped the curriculum for synchronous online delivery, whereby students complete lab activities working in lab groups via Zoom breakout rooms. This talk will briefly showcase the curriculum, lessons learned for online delivery of labs, and impact on student outcomes with a comparison to data previously gathered in face-to-face settings.

Teaching Scientific Reasoning through Synchronous Online Physics Labs

Addressing complex societal problems requires STEM workers with expertise such that they are able to recognize, understand, and effectively reason out solutions using principles of their disciplines. This need emphasizes the importance of skills-based learning. This presentation will provide details about the development of an introductory physics lab curriculum, which was designed around the theory-evidence coordination (TEC) framework to advance select reasoning skills through scaffolded lab activities. Best practices for using the TEC framework to modify existing curriculum will be provided along with how one might assess subsequent impact on student development of scientific reasoning. We will also discuss our interest in pilot sites for our curriculum.

Transforming Lab Instruction to Promote Essential Scientific Reasoning Abilities

Interactive video-enhanced tutorials (IVETs) involve web-based activities which lead students through a solution using expert-like problem-solving approaches, such as those needed for solving problems involving conservation of energy or linear momentum. Under NSF funding we have been developing and evaluating multiple IVETs for use with college students in introductory physics. This presentation will showcase our research methods and the impact of various IVETs on student problem-solving abilities.

Interactive Video-Enhanced Tutorials Impact on Student Problem-Solving Abilities

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