I am a member of ASEE (American Society of Engineering Educators) and they do a lot of group labs. They also do education research. So I did a search on their website and it comes up with several papers: http://www.asee.org/search?q=group+lab+reports
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From: Phys-l [mailto:phys-l-bounces@www.phys-l.org] On Behalf Of Forinash III, Kyle
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Hi
Can anyone point me to research (as opposed to opinion) that shows whether group lab reports (three names on a report) or individual reports are more effective in student learning? I searched the Phys-L archive and also the compadre PER site but came to no conclusion. There seems to be a general consensus that interacting engagement labs (including student designed labs, open ended labs, inquiry labs and the like) are more effective than ‘cookbook’ labs but there also seems to be dozens of ideas about how to do an ‘interactive’ lab, each claiming to be better than the rest. Can someone bring me up to speed on the actual research?
Thanks
kyle
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