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GIREP 1978 Oxford — The Role of the Laboratory in Physics Education

An account of the Oxford Conference held in July 1978 The subject of laboratory instruction in physics emerged as one of the main areas of interest at the International Commission's Conference in Edinburgh in August 1975. As physics teachers, we all know that laboratory work represents a particularly difficult problem. I suspect that it is in this area that we tend to feel most strongly, and most often, that our students are having an educational experience falling far short of what we would wish them to have. Our hope was that the Oxford conference would do something to remedy those shortcomi…