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Pre-labs as Advance Organizers to Facilitate Meaningful Learning in the Physical Science Laboratory

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  • Middle Eastern & African Journal of Educational Research

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  • 2014

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This paper describes a tool (pre-lab as an advance organizer) which is used to find out the effect of pre laboratory activities on the learning of the students at secondary school level. Twenty experiments from the secondary school physics curriculum were selected; the pre-labs and post-labs are then developed keeping in view the levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy. The psychological foundation underlying this tool is presented briefly. The issues of the without pre-laboratory work and rote-mode nature of learning in many countries of the world like Pakistan, and the importance of prior knowledge which is prerequisite for meaningful learning is discussed. There was a good sign of improvement in the achievement of the students having pre-labs as advance organizers. The findings of this research study and the data available to date from many qualitative and quantitative studies strongly support the pre-laboratories activities for cognitive gain. The paper emphasizes that the pre-lab activities should be introduced in the secondary school science laboratories specifically at physics.
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