- Course Code
- BI 2005
- Credit Points
- 15
- Course Coordinator
- Professor M Cotter
Pre-requisites
Co-requisites
BI 20M1 or BI 20B2 or BI 2001 or BI 20P1
Notes
Only available to students with degree intentions in the School of Biological Sciences or the School of Medical Sciences.
Overview
6 four-hour workshops every other Wednesday morning involving a Personal Response System (PRS) lecture at the start to introduce the topic, followed by groups of students working together to complete a related task eg solve a number of data interpretations.
Web-based "homework" is available in the following week, consisting of a bank of questions, which the students are advised to answer and practise. On alternate Wednesday mornings, students complete an individual assignment, generated randomly from the bank of questions.
At this point the students receive feedback on their answers. Any student who fails this assignment is able to repeat the task.
Topics include: numerical manipulations, practical skills, interpretation of graphs and data sets, basic statistics, application of statistical analysis to data, writing good scientific English, preparation of abstracts, designing experiments, critical analysis of published work, evaluating sources of information, analysis of conflicting published data, basic presentation skills.
Structure
6 four-hour workshops and 6 one-hour individual assignments.
Assessment
1st Attempt: Continuous assessment (100%). Consisting of group work (25%), peer assessment (5%), and individual assingments (70%).
Resit: Students will be able to repeat individual assignments.