JoinResearch and Teaching: Meaningful Learning in a First-Year Chemistry Laboratory Course: Differences Across Classical, Discovery, and Instrumental Experiments
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.