Week 8 Summary

This week we had a lab conference call and discussed our qualitative data. The students were also told more detail about the poster for Walden’s research symposium in January in Miami. We offered the students the opportunity to develop a poster based upon our preliminary data. Eight students decided to work on it as group, we received their draft today, and they did an awesome job on it!

The faculty have also been working on their own poster on the lab and the research skills that students have learned over the two quarters they have worked with us. The data show a clear pattern of learning by the students in the research lab over the control group. Both groups showed an increase in research efficacy which we have been considering how best to explain. It may be that the control group felt involved in the project as members of the control group and their confidence increased because of that. Alternatively, this blog may have provided a window in the project that made them feel more aligned with the project.

Lee Stadtlander