Webinars and talks
Cornell University | Defining, Developing, and Measuring Student Agency in Instructional Labs
October 12, 2022 | 2:00 - 3:00 PM
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Across science education, labs are offering more and more opportunities for students to design and conduct open-ended experiments. How do we most effectively hand over that control to the students, supporting and encouraging their agency? How do we measure whether students have taken up that agency and, if so, what are the benefits? This presentation will offer practical insight for instructors and researchers interested in fostering and evaluating student agency in instructional science labs.
Presenter(s)
Natasha Holmes
Assistant Professor, Cornell UniversityNatasha Holmes is a physics education researcher and the Ann S. Bowers Assistant Professor of Physics at Cornell University. She researches teaching and learning in physics and STEM fields including how students acquire knowledge, the effects of course environment on learning, and the development of scientific ways of thinking. She completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Guelph in 2009 then went to UBC to get her Master’s and Ph.D. by 2014 before becoming a post-doctoral researcher at Stanford University and then on to a professorship at Cornell University in 2017.
Additional information
- Location
- Virtual
- Organizer
- Cornell University
- Language
- English
- Fee
- Free
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