HENRY SHACKLETON: I would say that the thing that really
helped me the most in Junior Lab develop
as learning how to do experimental physics
is the lack of a super precise direction in the lab guide.
So the lab guides are vague.
They are very helpful, but they don't tell you
your sources of error are this, this, and this.
You really have to think about it.
You have to fill in the gaps and essentially almost come up
with your own experiment to determine how you're
going to go about the analysis, how you're
going to go about the error propagation-- things like that.
So I think leaving that room for students
to figure things out on their own
while providing feedback and advice is very helpful.