Tue. Thur. Learning Goal Reflection

(Learning Goals Pasted From Professor Price's Lab Notebook)

• read and write scientific papers.

-This last week we read our fellow group members results sections and provided peer review on these sections.  I then used the peer review I recieved from my group member to improve my results section by making it shorter and more to point and removing information i had in my results section that did belong in this section of a scientific paper.

• examine and participate in the steps of observation-driven investigations, including crafting scientific questions and hypotheses, designing experiments, collecting and analyzing data, interpreting and presenting results.

-During the course of my peer review of one of my group members results section, I had to analyze and interpret his data so that I was able to provide him feedback on his results.  I actually ended up being wrong on what I thought should have been in his results, which made me feel really bad since I basically bashed his paper when I was the one that didn't know what I was talking about, but it was a good learning experience. i.e. it's a good idea to defineitly know what your talking about before you go and try to tell someone else they are actually wrong, lol.  But I was atleast able to save face by apologzing and he was very graceful in accepting it.

• document your scientific experiences in a lab notebook.

-Well here I am right now doing this, lol, but we covered some very good information last week on how to improve upon our lab notebook entries, the biggest one being, as seen here the outlining of the learning goals as filled in headers, rather than reaching to remember how we met these goals.

• conduct research collaboratively, participating in peer review.

-well as I noted above we reviewed the results section from one of our group members, then used this feed back to improve upon our own results section, and this was all done collaboratively. 

• locate and review scientific literature related to a specific question.

-We reviewed the articles we had found a while back in building a rubric outline for our discussion section, this all went very well and has helped to understand exactly what I should or shouldnt be including in my discussion section.  Thanks, Nick Dotson signing Out.  MC' Flater.