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An Approach to Improve Laboratory Notebook Feedback and Decrease Instructor Fatigue from Grading Undergraduate Laboratory Notebooks
Proper laboratory notebook maintenance is a critical skill for science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) workers. Laboratory notebook grading can be time-consuming and lead to instructor fatigue. After many hours of grading laboratory notebooks, instructors can become biased or not provide d...
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American Society for Microbiology
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10117067/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37089219 http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/jmbe.00018-22 |
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description | Proper laboratory notebook maintenance is a critical skill for science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) workers. Laboratory notebook grading can be time-consuming and lead to instructor fatigue. After many hours of grading laboratory notebooks, instructors can become biased or not provide detailed feedback to students. I developed a simple protocol to alleviate these problems. Students maintained a laboratory notebook typical for most STEM courses. Then, they were given a short quiz with laboratory-specific questions and could only use their notebooks to answer. The presence or absence of major notebook sections (date, introduction, etc.) were checked, and the laboratory notebook score was a combination of these two components. The learning gains were not assessed, but the instructor grading time decreased by 80%. This technique was applied to both in-person and concurrent online laboratories. With the ever-increasing demands on instructors, anything that decreases the instructor workload and the time for students to receive feedback will likely lead to a better classroom environment. |
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spelling | pubmed-101170672023-04-21 An Approach to Improve Laboratory Notebook Feedback and Decrease Instructor Fatigue from Grading Undergraduate Laboratory Notebooks Fleming, Emily J. J Microbiol Biol Educ Tips and Tools Proper laboratory notebook maintenance is a critical skill for science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) workers. Laboratory notebook grading can be time-consuming and lead to instructor fatigue. After many hours of grading laboratory notebooks, instructors can become biased or not provide detailed feedback to students. I developed a simple protocol to alleviate these problems. Students maintained a laboratory notebook typical for most STEM courses. Then, they were given a short quiz with laboratory-specific questions and could only use their notebooks to answer. The presence or absence of major notebook sections (date, introduction, etc.) were checked, and the laboratory notebook score was a combination of these two components. The learning gains were not assessed, but the instructor grading time decreased by 80%. This technique was applied to both in-person and concurrent online laboratories. With the ever-increasing demands on instructors, anything that decreases the instructor workload and the time for students to receive feedback will likely lead to a better classroom environment. American Society for Microbiology 2023-02-14 /pmc/articles/PMC10117067/ /pubmed/37089219 http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/jmbe.00018-22 Text en Copyright © 2023 Fleming. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Tips and Tools Fleming, Emily J. An Approach to Improve Laboratory Notebook Feedback and Decrease Instructor Fatigue from Grading Undergraduate Laboratory Notebooks |
title | An Approach to Improve Laboratory Notebook Feedback and Decrease Instructor Fatigue from Grading Undergraduate Laboratory Notebooks |
title_full | An Approach to Improve Laboratory Notebook Feedback and Decrease Instructor Fatigue from Grading Undergraduate Laboratory Notebooks |
title_fullStr | An Approach to Improve Laboratory Notebook Feedback and Decrease Instructor Fatigue from Grading Undergraduate Laboratory Notebooks |
title_full_unstemmed | An Approach to Improve Laboratory Notebook Feedback and Decrease Instructor Fatigue from Grading Undergraduate Laboratory Notebooks |
title_short | An Approach to Improve Laboratory Notebook Feedback and Decrease Instructor Fatigue from Grading Undergraduate Laboratory Notebooks |
title_sort | approach to improve laboratory notebook feedback and decrease instructor fatigue from grading undergraduate laboratory notebooks |
topic | Tips and Tools |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10117067/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37089219 http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/jmbe.00018-22 |
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