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ERIC Number: EJ666468
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 2003
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ISSN: ISSN-1042-1726
The Data Aggregation Project: Free Software that Transforms the Student Laboratory Experience.
Brewer, Steven D.; Hoogendky, Tom; Hoagland, Donald B.
Journal of Computing in Higher Education, v15 n1 p108-27 Fall 2003
Found that in an introductory biology course at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, adoption of the Data Aggregation Project (free software that allows students in a course to aggregate a large body of data for some particular problem) resulted in an increase in the number of data points students analyzed per semester by a factor of almost 30. (EV)
Descriptors: Computer Software, Computer Uses in Education, Data Collection, Data Interpretation, Higher Education, Laboratory Experiments
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Free Materials