Table 3.

Summary of themes and comments produced by field study students cohort 1 regarding recommended changes to field study.

	Number of responses
Cohort	per theme categoriesa		Comment
	Class should have students read papers before	Class should develop projects more fully
2016 (n = 13)	4	3	There was too much activity happening back to back and adding class time and discussion to it was hard. I think we were too tired and stressed out trying to get school work done that we missed time enjoying the island and the things around us.
			We got a feel of the environmental science folks way of doing things as they also got a feel of what we do.
			By the time we were done with everything, we were physically and mentally tired and had to pull into reserve energy to attempt the articles enough to somewhat comprehend them enough to remember them in the morning.
			There were a lot of changes at the beginning or just before the trip with our research papers. The conservation bio class completely changed their projects and a lot of the comparative psych class had to change their projects (mostly because of the absence of calves or other issues). It would have been good if we’d been able to find out the population before the trip.
			I recommend for this trip to be 2 weeks long to get the ids down and have more time to get data without being stressed.

Question (post-survey only): Cohort 1 – If there is one thing that could be done differently, what would you recommend? ^aNot all students provided responses that fell into each theme. Also, theme categories were not mutually exclusive, and a student could contribute to multiple categories. The numbers will not add up to the sample totals for these reasons. Student responses were corrected for typographic errors only.