Helping Students to Think Like Scientists in Socratic Dialogue-Inducing Labs

• Autores: Richard Hake
• Localización: The Physics Teacher, ISSN 0031-921X, Vol. 50, Nº. 1, 2012, pág. 48
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Socratic dialogue-inducing (SDI) labs1,2 are based on Arnold Arons' half-century of ethnographic research, listening carefully to students' responses to probing Socratic questions on physics, science, and ways of thinking, and culminating in his landmark Teaching Introductory Physics.3 They utilize �interactive engagement� methods4 and are designed, in part, to help students think like scientists, e.g., to: (1) appreciate the need for operational definitions; (2) use and interpret pictorial, graphical, vectorial, mathematical, and written representations; and (3) consider dimensions, thought experiments, and limiting conditions. After giving some SDI lab examples from those categories, I conclude that the SDI lab attempts to help students think like scientists have been relatively successful