Students as Teachers of Laboratory Exercises

An experiment has been performed in which some of the students in a laboratory course were used as teachers of the course for their fellow students. The results have been evaluated in terms of student response and results of course examinations and special tests. The results show a positive influence on the understanding of the laboratory course material. A positive influence on the engagement in the general theoretical course study was postulated by the participants, but did not show in the analysis of the examination results.