Facilitating improvements in laboratory report writing skills with less grading: a laboratory report peer-review process.

ABSTRACT: Incorporating peer-review steps in the laboratory report writing process provides benefits to students, but it also can create additional work for laboratory instructors. The laboratory report writing process described here allows the instructor to grade only one lab report for every two to four students, while giving the students the benefits of peer review and prompt feedback on their laboratory reports. Here we present the application of this process to a sophomore level genetics course and a freshman level cellular biology course, including information regarding class time spent on student preparation activities, instructor preparation, prerequisite student knowledge, suggested learning outcomes, procedure, materials, student instructions, faculty instructions, assessment tools, and sa

SUBMITTER: Brigati JR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4416507 | biostudies-literature | 2015 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature