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Editorial: Call for Papers Focused Collection of <i>Physical Review Physics Education Research</i> Instructional labs: Improving traditions and new directions

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  • Throughout the 1980s and 1990s the PER community made significant progress in innovative instructional strategies and research studies related to student learning in lecture and recitation format classes as well as innovative laboratory techniques

  • Over the last 15 years, we have seen rapid growth in research related to laboratory education

  • The goal of this Focused Collection is to assemble a set of research articles that together will provide readers with a critical examination of the breadth of pedagogical approaches, frameworks and research methods, assessment tools, and broader issues surrounding laboratory education

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Throughout the 1980s and 1990s the PER community made significant progress in innovative instructional strategies and research studies related to student learning in lecture and recitation format classes as well as innovative laboratory techniques (for example, microcomputer-based laboratories). Editorial: Call for Papers Focused Collection of Physical Review Physics Education Research Instructional labs: Improving traditions and new directions Every physics department has labs of different levels: from introductory to advanced, for majors and nonmajors, with real equipment or virtual.

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