TY - CONF

T1 - Laboratory-related competences at university level

T2 - European Science Education Research Association Conference 2021

AU - Agustian, Hendra Yusup

AU - Nielsen, Jan Alexis

AU - Pedersen, Maja Ingerslev

PY - 2021

Y1 - 2021

N2 - In this paper, we aim to summarize salient findings from a systematic review of empirical literature in post-secondary chemistry laboratory education and expert validation of the results. A part of a larger research project aimed at improving learning in the laboratory, the review was conducted with a purpose of characterizing learning outcomes associated with teaching laboratories. We focus our analysis of 355 empirical studies on evidence for learning substantiated through various theoretical, pedagogical, and methodological approaches. Through the lens of competence acquisition and development, we have characterized five large clusters of learning outcomes pertaining to multifarious domains of learning, viz. experimental competence, conceptual learning, higher-order thinking skills, affective outcomes, and transversal competence. These findings laid a foundation for the subsequent expert validation involving 31 professors and associate professors teaching laboratory courses in chemistry and pharmaceutical sciences. In our reviewed studies, we found that learning in the chemistry laboratory is distinctively multidimensional, encompassing students’ cognition, affect, conation, and psychomotor domain. Evidence has also been shown for learning outcomes pertaining to the social and epistemic domains. However, we argue that the manner in which those domains have been substantiated still necessitates integration. Our systematized expert validation concurs with some of these results, with further elaboration and addition emerging from the faculty members’ experience and expertise. Implications for laboratory education research were discussed.

AB - In this paper, we aim to summarize salient findings from a systematic review of empirical literature in post-secondary chemistry laboratory education and expert validation of the results. A part of a larger research project aimed at improving learning in the laboratory, the review was conducted with a purpose of characterizing learning outcomes associated with teaching laboratories. We focus our analysis of 355 empirical studies on evidence for learning substantiated through various theoretical, pedagogical, and methodological approaches. Through the lens of competence acquisition and development, we have characterized five large clusters of learning outcomes pertaining to multifarious domains of learning, viz. experimental competence, conceptual learning, higher-order thinking skills, affective outcomes, and transversal competence. These findings laid a foundation for the subsequent expert validation involving 31 professors and associate professors teaching laboratory courses in chemistry and pharmaceutical sciences. In our reviewed studies, we found that learning in the chemistry laboratory is distinctively multidimensional, encompassing students’ cognition, affect, conation, and psychomotor domain. Evidence has also been shown for learning outcomes pertaining to the social and epistemic domains. However, we argue that the manner in which those domains have been substantiated still necessitates integration. Our systematized expert validation concurs with some of these results, with further elaboration and addition emerging from the faculty members’ experience and expertise. Implications for laboratory education research were discussed.

M3 - Paper

Y2 - 30 August 2021 through 3 September 2021

ER -