Instructional Laboratories
Have they worked?
- "There is little empirical evidence that laboratory instruction in elementary courses contributes significantly to the student's understanding of physics.”
- Leo Nedelsky, Am. J. Phys. 26, 51-59 (1958).
- More attention has gone to laboratory work than to almost any other component of physics education.
- A. P. French, Physics Today 34 (11), 51-59, 61-62 (1981).