‘What do you think the aims of doing a practical chemistry course are?’ A comparison of the views of students and teaching staff across three universities
| العنوان: | ‘What do you think the aims of doing a practical chemistry course are?’ A comparison of the views of students and teaching staff across three universities |
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| المؤلفون: | Angela Ziebell, Stephen George-Williams, Christopher Thompson, Paolo Coppo, Russell R. A. Kitson, Tina Overton |
| المصدر: | Chemistry Education Research and Practice. 19:463-473 |
| بيانات النشر: | Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), 2018. |
| سنة النشر: | 2018 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Medical education, 010405 organic chemistry, Teaching staff, media_common.quotation_subject, 05 social sciences, 050301 education, 01 natural sciences, Science education, 0104 chemical sciences, Education, Qualitative analysis, Chemistry (miscellaneous), Perception, Workforce, ComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDEDUCATION, Chemistry (relationship), 0503 education, Qualitative research, media_common |
| الوصف: | The aims of teaching laboratories is an important and ever-evolving topic of discussion amongst teaching staff at teaching institutions. It is often assumed that both teaching staff and students are implicitly aware of these aims, although this is rarely tested or measured. This assumption can lead to mismatched beliefs between students and teaching staff and, if not corrected for, could lead to negative learning gains for students and become a source of frustration for teaching staff. In order to measure and identify this gap in a manner that could be readily generalised to other institutions, a single open question – ‘What do you think the aims of doing a practical chemistry course are?’ – was distributed to students and teaching staff at two Australian universities and one UK university. Qualitative analysis of the responses revealed that students and teaching staff held relatively narrow views of teaching laboratories, particularly focusing on aims more in line with expository experiences (e.g. development of practical skills or enhances understanding of theory). Whilst some differences were noted between students at the three institutions, the large amount of similarities in their responses indicated a fairly common perception of laboratory aims. Of the three groups, academics actually held the narrowest view of teaching laboratories, typically neglecting the preparation of students for the workforce or the simple increase in laboratory experience the students could gain. This study highlights gaps between the perceptions of students and teaching staff with regards to laboratory aims alongside revealing that all three groups held relatively simplified views of teaching laboratories. |
| تدمد: | 1756-1108 1109-4028 |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::0c0ba45c373b17ebfa358006fdc7e2c0 https://doi.org/10.1039/c7rp00177k |
| حقوق: | OPEN |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsair.doi...........0c0ba45c373b17ebfa358006fdc7e2c0 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 17561108 11094028 |
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