Student perceptions of instruction sheets in face-to-face and remotely-operated engineering laboratory learning

© 2019 SEFI. The laboratory instruction sheet (sometimes called a laboratory manual), together with the equipment used by students, is an essential resource for laboratory work. It has a direct influence over all the interactions that can occur in the laboratory activity, of which student-equipm...

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Main Authors: Lal, Sulakshana, Lucey, Tony, Lindsay, E, Treagust, David, Long, J.M., Mocerino, Mauro, Zadnik, Marjan
Format: Journal Article
Published: Taylor and Francis 2020
Online Access:http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP140104189
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/81351
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author Lal, Sulakshana
Lucey, Tony
Lindsay, E
Treagust, David
Long, J.M.
Mocerino, Mauro
Zadnik, Marjan
author_facet Lal, Sulakshana
Lucey, Tony
Lindsay, E
Treagust, David
Long, J.M.
Mocerino, Mauro
Zadnik, Marjan
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description © 2019 SEFI. The laboratory instruction sheet (sometimes called a laboratory manual), together with the equipment used by students, is an essential resource for laboratory work. It has a direct influence over all the interactions that can occur in the laboratory activity, of which student-equipment is the only common synchronous interaction in both face-to-face and remote-access laboratories. This article offers a student perspective on the function, utility, and importance of laboratory instruction sheets in Engineering along with their preferred design for both face-to-face and remote modes. Both qualitative and quantitative investigations were made for studying students’ perceptions. The laboratory sheet was found to be a contributing factor to student satisfaction for student-equipment interactions in face-to-face laboratories and important to students’ experience in remote-access laboratories in giving them a feel of operating real equipment. Further important findings include the need for the instruction sheet to meet different content requirements and emphases that depend upon the laboratory mode and different levels of student academic achievement.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-813512020-12-08T05:52:27Z Student perceptions of instruction sheets in face-to-face and remotely-operated engineering laboratory learning Lal, Sulakshana Lucey, Tony Lindsay, E Treagust, David Long, J.M. Mocerino, Mauro Zadnik, Marjan © 2019 SEFI. The laboratory instruction sheet (sometimes called a laboratory manual), together with the equipment used by students, is an essential resource for laboratory work. It has a direct influence over all the interactions that can occur in the laboratory activity, of which student-equipment is the only common synchronous interaction in both face-to-face and remote-access laboratories. This article offers a student perspective on the function, utility, and importance of laboratory instruction sheets in Engineering along with their preferred design for both face-to-face and remote modes. Both qualitative and quantitative investigations were made for studying students’ perceptions. The laboratory sheet was found to be a contributing factor to student satisfaction for student-equipment interactions in face-to-face laboratories and important to students’ experience in remote-access laboratories in giving them a feel of operating real equipment. Further important findings include the need for the instruction sheet to meet different content requirements and emphases that depend upon the laboratory mode and different levels of student academic achievement. 2020 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/81351 10.1080/03043797.2019.1654433 http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP140104189 Taylor and Francis fulltext
spellingShingle Lal, Sulakshana
Lucey, Tony
Lindsay, E
Treagust, David
Long, J.M.
Mocerino, Mauro
Zadnik, Marjan
Student perceptions of instruction sheets in face-to-face and remotely-operated engineering laboratory learning
title Student perceptions of instruction sheets in face-to-face and remotely-operated engineering laboratory learning
title_full Student perceptions of instruction sheets in face-to-face and remotely-operated engineering laboratory learning
title_fullStr Student perceptions of instruction sheets in face-to-face and remotely-operated engineering laboratory learning
title_full_unstemmed Student perceptions of instruction sheets in face-to-face and remotely-operated engineering laboratory learning
title_short Student perceptions of instruction sheets in face-to-face and remotely-operated engineering laboratory learning
title_sort student perceptions of instruction sheets in face-to-face and remotely-operated engineering laboratory learning
url http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP140104189
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/81351