Table 2.
Student assessment of specific scientific goals
| Answersa | |||||
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| YES | NO | ||||
| Subject area | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
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| Question: Did the lab increase your understanding of any of the following? | |||||
| Proper use of controls | 16 | 16 | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| The human genome databases | 20 | 15 | 4 | 0 | 1 |
| Literature searching—electronic and print | 13 | 13 | 8 | 1 | 4 |
| How to write a scientific paper | 15 | 15 | 5 | 1 | 2 |
| How to read a scientific paper | 6 | 19 | 9 | 5 | 3 |
| How to analyze data | 10 | 15 | 6 | 2 | 2 |
| Responsibility for a project | 24 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 2 |
aValues indicate the number of students who responded in each category.