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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Please take note of Colloquium taking place today, Tuesday,
<span style="color:black">February 1</span><span style="color:black">9</span><span style="color:black">, 2013</span> at 4:00 PM in The Robert Smith Seminar Room. There will be a reception in the Atrium at 3:45 PM. Details concerning the talk are as follows:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Speaker: <span style="color:black">
Kathy Koenig – University of Cincinnati</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Date: <span style="color:black">
Tuesday, February 1</span><span style="color:black">9</span><span style="color:black">, 2013</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Time: 4:00 PM<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Place: <span style="color:black">
1080 Physics Research Building, </span>The Robert Smith Seminar Room<span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Title:
</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11.0pt">“Enhancing scientific reasoning abilities in the introductory physics lab course”*<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Abstract: </span>
<span lang="EN" style="font-size:11.0pt">Students enter college with wide variations in scientific reasoning abilities. Research indicates that students with formal reasoning patterns are more proficient learners, but unfortunately the typical college course
does not significantly impact these abilities. Rather, it is through explicit and targeted instruction in scientific reasoning that students have been observed to make significant shifts. In an effort to better target our students’ development of scientific
reasoning, we have revised the structure and topics of the activities in our introductory physics lab courses. Students are more involved in the actual design of the experiments and more emphasis is placed on student use of evidence-based reasoning in lab
report writing. Online homework and quizzes between lab sessions provide further targeted support. This presentation will describe the new lab curriculum as well as gains made in student development of scientific reasoning. </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif""> *Partially supported by the National Institutes of Health 1RC1RR028402-01<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN"></span>The website for the Colloquium is <a href="https://physics.osu.edu/physics-colloquium-schedule">
https://physics.osu.edu/physics-colloquium-schedule</a> <o:p></o:p></p>
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