To investigate students' perceptions of learning through three categories of experiments—classical, discovery, and instrumental—six students were interviewed over the course of a semester. Students' descriptions of their learning in the laboratory were analyzed through the lens of Novak's theory of meaningful learning and were compared with the instructor's learning goals for the experiments.
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Type Journal ArticlePub Date 11/1/2011Stock # jcst11_041_02_89Volume 041Issue 02