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    Development, Evaluation and Use of a Student Experience Survey in Undergraduate Science Laboratories: The Advancing Science by Enhancing Learning in the Laboratory Student Laboratory Learning Experience Survey

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    Barrie, S.
    Bucat, R.
    Buntine, Mark
    Burke da Silva, K.
    Crisp, G.
    George, A.
    Jamie, I.
    Kable, S.
    Lim, K.
    Pyke, S.
    Read, J.
    Sharma, M.
    Yeung, Alexandra
    Date
    2015
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Barrie, S. and Bucat, R. and Buntine, M. and Burke da Silva, K. and Crisp, G. and George, A. and Jamie, I. et al. 2015. Development, Evaluation and Use of a Student Experience Survey in Undergraduate Science Laboratories: The Advancing Science by Enhancing Learning in the Laboratory Student Laboratory Learning Experience Survey. International Journal of Science Education. 37 (11): pp. 1795-1814.
    Source Title
    International Journal of Science Education
    DOI
    10.1080/09500693.2015.1052585
    ISSN
    0950-0693
    School
    Department of Chemistry
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/37973
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    Student experience surveys have become increasingly popular to probe various aspects of processes and outcomes in higher education, such as measuring student perceptions of the learning environment and identifying aspects that could be improved. This paper reports on a particular survey for evaluating individual experiments that has been developed over some 15 years as part of a large national Australian study pertaining to the area of undergraduate laboratories—Advancing Science by Enhancing Learning in the Laboratory. This paper reports on the development of the survey instrument and the evaluation of the survey using student responses to experiments from different institutions in Australia, New Zealand and the USA. A total of 3153 student responses have been analysed using factor analysis. Three factors, motivation, assessment and resources, have been identified as contributing to improved student attitudes to laboratory activities. A central focus of the survey is to provide feedback to practitioners to iteratively improve experiments. Implications for practitioners and researchers are also discussed.

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