Role of Instructors for Coaching and Cueing Scientific Reasoning

We recently redesigned the labs in our introductory calculus-based sequence to focus on teaching scientific thinking skills. In each lab project, students are given a research question and then they work with a group to design and execute an experiment. In this walk, I will show results of effective instructor interventions in labs that coach for or cue for students' scientific reasoning, as well as ineffective instructor interventions that preclude or demotivate students' scientific reasoning.