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Don't Settle for Imitation Laboratory Assignments

Journal of College Science Teaching—October 2001

Science courses often offer structured laboratory exercises that do not provide students with a thorough understanding of how to conduct scientific research. Westfield State College’s Animal Behavior course requires students to design their own research projects, which involves writing a scientific research proposal, conducting experiments, and presenting results in the form of a scientific paper.

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