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from Georgia State University. These books are used for a one hour in-clas* as*ignment that precedes the main lab and a homework as*ignment. These as*ignments are meant to help with conceptual learning of Physics and are detached from the lecture and lab. Most students view them as a pre-lab, because they are integrated directly before the main lab. The problem is, they do not always align with the lecture material and the lab topic. They create confusion more often than not. Research was done to determine what other schools use as a pre-lab. In the short timeframe allocated for this survey, about four hundred schools were able to respond and provide information about what kind of pre-lab they use for Physics. This research was only able to brush Out of 398 responses, 188 schools indicated they did use some form of pre-lab and 189 schools indicated they did not use any pre-lab at all. 21 schools indicated that depending on the instructor, some use a pre-lab and some do not. About 25% of schools indicated they use a simple pre-lab quiz. The quiz varied school to school, but generally questions would be geared toward preparing students for the upcoming lab. Questions would include asking about lab equipment that will be used, graphing (x, y, slope), and questions about the previous weeks lab. The goal was to have students be more prepared for the lab. About 6% of schools used a short presentation before the main lab. This was to provide students with good understanding of the lab, rather than throwing them into the lab. These schools indicated that this was their pre-lab, but most schools use some short of short presentation or discussion at the beginning of most labs to prepare students. Over 50% of the responses indicated they give homework as a pre-lab. This was usually to serve the same purpose as a pre-lab quiz would. Schools wanted students to read the main lab prior to clas*. An at-home as*ignment would reinforce this and also better prepare About 15% of schools that responded use a in-clas* as*ignment either from a bought book or a lab manual developed in-house.