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This repository contains documentation about the goals of the study programs MTFYMA and BFY and how they are achieved
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Improving experimental laboratory work and student writing #9

Open magnunor opened 2 years ago

magnunor commented 2 years ago

Not sure if this is the correct place for this, but I'm thinking this might serve as inspiration for the "Gjennomføring" part of the document for the experimental/laboratory aspects of the study programme.

While taking an UNIPED module, I come across this article: "Eliminating Lab Reports: A Rhetorical Approach for Teaching the Scientific Paper in Sophomore Organic Chemistry", https://doi.org/10.37514/WAC-J.2009.20.1.02 . The article outlines how a chemistry department improved both the student's laboratory work, and the student's report writing skills. Firstly by having the students do lab-work which is much closer to a "standard" scientific experiment. Secondly by removing the "lab report" genre, and rather having the students write reports which are much closer to a scientific paper.

This is very similar to what I'm planning on doing in TFY4330 Nanotools this autumn, and I'm in the processing of adapting several of their suggestions into the report writing part of the course. And I think doing something similar for the early year physics labs would be useful as well.

maglil commented 2 years ago

How the discussion and the evolution of the document will evolve is still 'work in progress' I guess. Personally, I think this way of sharing ideas is spot on and is a good way for many to participate in the discussion and also to document it for future reference.

Regarding the topic, I very much agree with your ideas and the content of the paper. We should move away from cookbook experiments and reports that are based on trivial data. Reading the paper, the project- and master thesis genre came to mind - do you ever in life write a report in a master thesis format after the master thesis?