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If we wish to explore the effectiveness of labwork for achieving its goals, we need to be clear about the aims of each labwork task and be able to describe its essential features in a systematic way. A model is presented of the process of developing a labwork task and evaluating its effectiveness. Two senses of ‘effectiveness’ are identified: the match between what students are intended to do in the task and what they actually do (effectiveness 1); and between what students are intended to learn from the task and what they actually learn (effectiveness 2). A classification scheme is then described which can be used to produce a profile of any labwork task. This provides a useful tool for exploring systematically the effectiveness of labwork tasks.
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Millar, R., Tiberghien, A., Le Maréchal, JF. (2002). Varieties of Labwork: A Way of Profiling Labwork Tasks. In: Psillos, D., Niedderer, H. (eds) Teaching and Learning in the Science Laboratory. Science & Technology Education Library, vol 16. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-48196-0_3
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