Cosmic collaboration in an undergraduate astrophysics laboratory

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Oct 2010

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American Journal of Physics, Volume 78, Issue 10, pp. 1035-1047 (2010).

Physics

Physics Education

Cosmic Rays, Education, Student Experiments, Research In Physics Education

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Lessons learned during the first offering of a lab component of an intermediate astrophysics course at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls are discussed. The course enrolled students from a variety of majors. Students worked in mixed-gender, mixed-major collaborative groups. They explored cosmic rays through hands-on, inquiry-based activities that took them from classic, fundamental discoveries to open-ended questions of their own design. We find that students divided their labor and brought the various parts of their research project together with little or no discussion regarding the various pieces and how they inform each other. Aspects of the lab design helped disrupt some typical gender dynamics in that men did not dominate group discussions. However, men did dominate the hands-on activities of the lab.

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