"Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought."
--Albert Szent-Györgyi
Equipment
(none)
Current Events Quiz, Exit Survey
(First 10 minutes of laboratory.)
Pick up and complete both sides of the "Astronomy Laboratory Learning Survey" (5.0 points) after turning in the Current Events Quiz.
Briefing
Research Poster Session (*.pdf) (*.mov) (*.blog)
Big Idea
Attending a research poster session is an opportunity to personally engage colleagues in person about their findings, and to enrich each others' professional knowledge, perspective, and insights.
Goal
Students will alternate between presenting their independent research posters, and circulating and assessing others' research posters.
Tasks
1. Sign-up Sheet
- If you have brought a completed research poster, sign up for your preference of first-half or second-half presentations. (Your instructor may move people near the bottom of either list to the other session in order to even out the number of presenters in each session.)
- Tape your poster up in the space(s) available.
2. First Session
- If you are presenting, stand by your poster, and answer questions and make clarifications for other attendees.
- If you are observing, circulate among every first-session poster. Be sure to ask questions and make constructive comments to the presenters. After looking at all the first-session posters, complete a session report (*.pdf):
- Discuss the most interesting aspect of this session's posters, and explain why this was personally interesting for you. (If you didn't find something especially interesting, then choose something that was at least somewhat interesting.) Note the specific poster and presenter in your discussion.
- Discuss the most confusing part of this session's posters, and explain why this was personally confusing for you. (If you didn't find something especially confusing, then choose something that was at least somewhat confusing.) Note the specific poster and presenter in your discussion.
- Record a question that you were able to ask a presenter during this session, and summarize the answer/explanation given by the poster presenter. (You must ask at least one question and record the answer.) Note the specific poster and presenter in your discussion.
3. Second Session
- If you are now presenting, stand by your poster, and answer questions and make clarifications for other attendees.
- If you are now observing, circulate among every second-session poster. Be sure to ask questions and make constructive comments to the presenters. After looking at all the second-session posters, complete a session report (*.pdf):
- Discuss the most interesting aspect of this session's posters, and explain why this was personally interesting for you. (If you didn't find something especially interesting, then choose something that was at least somewhat interesting.) Note the specific poster and presenter in your discussion.
- Discuss the most confusing part of this session's posters, and explain why this was personally confusing for you. (If you didn't find something especially confusing, then choose something that was at least somewhat confusing.) Note the specific poster and presenter in your discussion.
- Record a question that you were able to ask a presenter during this session, and summarize the answer/explanation given by the poster presenter. (You must ask at least one question and record the answer.) Note the specific poster and presenter in your discussion.
Turn in your session report (whether first- or second-session) at the end of today's lab.
Preparation/Reflection Points
1.0 = Pre-lab reading assignment
1.0 = Current Events Quiz
1.0 = Post-lab reflection assignment
INDIVIDUAL POINTS(*)
Poster (3.0 points maximum)
3.0 = research project complete and competent poster
2.5 = minor problem with research project or poster
2.0 = minor problems with both research project and poster
1.5 = problematic research project and poster
1.0 = minimally acceptable completed attempt
0.5 = unacceptable/incomplete attempt
Session Report (2.0 points maximum)
2.0 = session report complete and competent remarks
1.5 = minor problem with completion or remarks
1.0 = minor problems with both completion and remarks
0.5 = problematic completion and remarks
(If you did not bring a poster to present today, you may fill out another additional half-credit session report.)
(Session report format adapted from "Improving Student Engagement at Public Lectures: Assigning a Writing Task," Tim Slater and Gina Brissenden, http://astronomy101.jpl.nasa.gov/teachingstrategies/teachingdetails/?StrategyID=15.)
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