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作为科学交流的实验室笔记本:从本科课程到研究生研究的调查发展

Lab notebooks as scientific communication: investigating development from undergraduate courses to graduate research

Jacob T. Stanley, H. J. Lewandowski

摘要:

在实验物理学中,实验笔记本在研究过程中起着至关重要的作用。尽管实验室笔记本无处不在,但很少有人正式关注什么是科学文献的“最佳实践”,以及研究人员如何在实验物理学中学习这些实践。使用与实践研究人员,即物理研究生的访谈,我们探讨了不同的经验,研究人员在学习如何有效地使用笔记本电脑的科学文件。我们发现,很少有受访者认为,他们的本科实验课成功地教他们保持一个实验室笔记本的好处。大多数描述的实验室笔记本使用的培训要么是无效的,要么是在他们的本科实验室课程经验中完全缺失的。此外,绝大多数受访者解释说,他们在研究生院的经历中没有接受过任何关于维护实验室笔记本的正式培训,并且很少或根本没有从他们的顾问那里得到关于这些记录的反馈。许多受访者描述说,只有在经过一段时间的试错并已经开始在研究生课程中进行研究之后,他们才了解了此类实验室记录的目的和如何维护。尽管科学文献在研究企业中发挥着核心作用,但这些物理学研究生并没有通过正式的指导获得文献技能,而是通过非正式的实践。

英文摘要:

In experimental physics, lab notebooks play an essential role in the research process. For all of the ubiquity of lab notebooks, little formal attention has been paid to addressing what is considered `best practice' for scientific documentation and how researchers come to learn these practices in experimental physics. Using interviews with practicing researchers, namely physics graduate students, we explore the different experiences researchers had in learning how to effectively use a notebook for scientific documentation. We find that very few of those interviewed thought that their undergraduate lab classes successfully taught them the benefit of maintaining a lab notebook. Most described training in lab notebook use as either ineffective or outright missing from their undergraduate lab course experience. Furthermore, a large majority of those interviewed explained that they did not receive any formal training in maintaining a lab notebook during their graduate school experience and received little to no feedback from their advisors on these records. Many of the interviewees describe learning the purpose of, and how to maintain, these kinds of lab records only after having a period of trial and error, having already started doing research in their graduate program. Despite the central role of scientific documentation in the research enterprise, these physics graduate students did not gain skills in documentation through formal instruction, but rather through informal hands-on practice.

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