I have taken the opportunity in this past week to make more of our labs "open-ended". Rather than asking students to follow step-by-step procedures and hope they grasp the physics implications, part of the labs will ask the students to verify or test a physics principle.
For example in the magnetic field lab, they will be asked to establish the extent to which the approximations used in applying Ampere's law are accurate for a long wire and an solenoid. The plan is to have the first part of these labs follow some step-by-step examples to help students get familiar with the equipment.
Wonder what sort of evaluation I should do
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