[This paper is part of the Focused Collection on Instructional labs: Improving traditions and
new directions.] This review article provides an overview of research on the topic of gender …

[This paper is part of the Focused Collection on Instructional labs: Improving traditions and
new directions.] In recent years, physics instructional labs have been under considerable …

Physics laboratory courses have been generally acknowledged as an important component
of the undergraduate curriculum, particularly with respect to developing students' interest in …

Introductory physics lab instruction is undergoing a transformation, with increasing emphasis
on developing experimentation and critical thinking skills. These changes present a need for …

Improving students' understanding of the nature of experimental physics is often an explicit
or implicit goal of undergraduate laboratory physics courses. However, lab activities in …

Instructional labs are fundamental to an undergraduate physics curriculum, but their
possible learning goals are vast with limited evidence to support any particular goal. In this …

Due to the coronavirus lockdown, home experiments were devised for our first-year physics
lab course. In this practitioner contribution we elaborate on the guided inquiries that were set …

Undergraduate instructional labs in physics generate intense opinions. Their advocates are
passionate as to their importance for teaching physics as an experimental activity and …

Physics lab instruction is evolving in response to changing technology, a desire to better
prepare students for diverse careers, and renewed focus from physics education …

There is a large variety of goals instructors have for laboratory courses, with different
courses focusing on different subsets of goals. An often implicit, but crucial, goal is to …