Resumen de The Scientific Graphic Organizer for Lab Work
Secondary school students frequently engage in lab work. Often, they are asked to write a report afterwards. But if we just want to know whether they did what they were supposed to do and learned what was intended, is it then necessary to have students write an extensive lab report? Writing consumes a lot of time, and with a report we mostly assess students’ ability to communicate clearly.1,2 To formatively assess both aspects of lab work (doing the practical and learning from it) without increasing the teacher’s workload (reports piling up), I developed the Scientific Graphic Organizer (SGO).3,4 The SGO can be regarded as a prestructured but simplified lab journal suited for quantitative physics inquiry (QPI) in which a quantitative relation between variables is sought.
