Survey of Undergraduate Students’ Goals and Achievement Strategies for Laboratory Coursework
Survey of Undergraduate Students’ Goals and Achievement Strategies for Laboratory Coursework
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本科生实验课程目标和成就策略调查
DOI：
10.1021/acs.jchemed.8b00984
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发表时间：
2019
影响因子：
3
通讯作者：
M. Towns
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作者：
Stephanie Santos;Sarah Hensiek;Taylor M Owings;M. Towns
之前的研究表明，教职员工和学生在实验室课程中的目标不一致。尽管教师们经常把学习技巧和发展批判性思维能力列为实验室的目标，但学生往往把重点放在情感目标上，比如早点完成实验室，取得好成绩。通过定性和大规模的定量研究，对教师的目标进行了彻底的调查。然而，对学生实验课程目标的研究主要是用定性的方法进行的。为了更全面地了解学生在实验室中的目标，我们设计了一个简短的在线调查。这项调查被用来调查学生在实验室中的目标，并通过包括调查问题来建立现有文献的基础上，这些问题对学生如何计划实现他们的目标进行了分类。在这项研究中，我们讨论了学生在学期初和完成课程实验部分后的目标和成就策略的结果。通过在线调查，匿名回复来自中西部两所大学注册化学课程的本科生。这些结果旨在为教师之间关于如何改变实验室课程和教学以更好地协调教师和学生的目标的讨论提供信息。
Previous work has shown a misalignment between the goals of faculty and students for laboratory coursework. Although faculty often list learning techniques and developing critical thinking skills as goals for laboratory, students tend to focus on affective goals, such as finishing lab early and obtaining good grades. The goals of faculty have been thoroughly investigated through both qualitative and large-scale quantitative studies. However, studies on student goals for laboratory coursework have primarily been conducted using qualitative methods. In order to provide a more comprehensive idea of students’ goals in the laboratory, we have designed a brief, online survey. The survey was used to investigate students’ goals in the laboratory and build on existing literature by including survey questions that catalog how students plan on achieving their goals. In this study, we discuss results about students’ goals and achievement strategies at the beginning of the semester and after completing the laboratory portion of the course. Anonymous responses, via the online survey, were collected from undergraduate students enrolled in chemistry courses at two Midwestern universities. These results are intended to inform the discussion among faculty regarding how to change laboratory coursework and the instruction to better align faculty and student goals.