An Authentic Research Experience for Undergraduates on a Budget: Using Data From Simple Experiments to Develop Mini-Research Proposals

by: Katherine Robertson

The author describes how she has incorporated mini-research proposals into her lab courses. Students use the data they collect during class experiments as preliminary data, from which they formulate a next-step question and hypothesis, and then research up-to-date methods for testing their hypothesis. Students learn about methods and technologies that they otherwise wouldn’t be exposed to while gaining valuable experience for developing a good senior research project.

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Type Journal ArticlePub Date 11/1/2016Stock # jcst16_046_02_32Volume 046Issue 02

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