First year Physics labs in a 'suitcase'
Over the past two decades university student demographics have considerably changed. A larger percentage of the population that now attend university come from a variety of teaching and learning cultures and a wide range of socio-economic backgrounds. Under these challenging circumstances, most of t...
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2005
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| author | Siddiqui, Salim Loss, Robert Lawson, Glen Barker, A. Yeo, Shelley |
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| description | Over the past two decades university student demographics have considerably changed. A larger percentage of the population that now attend university come from a variety of teaching and learning cultures and a wide range of socio-economic backgrounds. Under these challenging circumstances, most of the students seem to juggle their time between work, study and family commitments to complete their degree. A survey conducted by Curtin Applied Physics in October 2000 revealed that 58% of the full time students studying physics for their first time work either part time or full time and therefore are time disadvantaged as compared to their full time non-working colleagues. In order to address these issues Physics113/114/115 units were restructured into modular format providing flexible assessment using WebCT. These units have been running for the past three years. Over these years we have found that the flexible module assessment is working well to the satisfaction of the students, but some of the students are still finding it difficult to budget their time to attend laboratories to complete the unit. The laboratory program is an essential part of these units and is thus heavily weighted and requires a considerable time input by the students. At the time when these units were modularised, flexible laboratory program could not be provided due to lack of equipment, funding and staff time constraints. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-259382017-01-30T12:50:53Z First year Physics labs in a 'suitcase' Siddiqui, Salim Loss, Robert Lawson, Glen Barker, A. Yeo, Shelley Murdoch University Over the past two decades university student demographics have considerably changed. A larger percentage of the population that now attend university come from a variety of teaching and learning cultures and a wide range of socio-economic backgrounds. Under these challenging circumstances, most of the students seem to juggle their time between work, study and family commitments to complete their degree. A survey conducted by Curtin Applied Physics in October 2000 revealed that 58% of the full time students studying physics for their first time work either part time or full time and therefore are time disadvantaged as compared to their full time non-working colleagues. In order to address these issues Physics113/114/115 units were restructured into modular format providing flexible assessment using WebCT. These units have been running for the past three years. Over these years we have found that the flexible module assessment is working well to the satisfaction of the students, but some of the students are still finding it difficult to budget their time to attend laboratories to complete the unit. The laboratory program is an essential part of these units and is thus heavily weighted and requires a considerable time input by the students. At the time when these units were modularised, flexible laboratory program could not be provided due to lack of equipment, funding and staff time constraints. 2005 Conference Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/25938 Murdoch University fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Siddiqui, Salim Loss, Robert Lawson, Glen Barker, A. Yeo, Shelley First year Physics labs in a 'suitcase' |
| title | First year Physics labs in a 'suitcase' |
| title_full | First year Physics labs in a 'suitcase' |
| title_fullStr | First year Physics labs in a 'suitcase' |
| title_full_unstemmed | First year Physics labs in a 'suitcase' |
| title_short | First year Physics labs in a 'suitcase' |
| title_sort | first year physics labs in a 'suitcase' |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/25938 |