A summary of major learning benefits not necessarily specific to evolution that students felt they gained from this course design. These points were taken from discussions with students who took the course.
| Contextualizing and applying major concepts in evolution |
| Increasing ownership of course material |
| Applying knowledge from lecture/lab directly to their question |
| Becoming active researchers in evolutionary biology |
| Reading the primary literature with a purpose (just-in-time not just-in-case learning) |
| Critically evaluating evidence (data) presented in primary literature |
| Interpreting and presenting data in graphical format |
| Presenting evidence about hypotheses in which they are invested |
| Collaborating with team members to synthesize ideas from different fields of biology |
| Learning to frame a specific argument into a conceptual whole |
| Building a multilayered complex argument from many detailed, specific studies |
| Contextualizing and applying major concepts in evolution |
| Increasing ownership of course material |
| Applying knowledge from lecture/lab directly to their question |
| Becoming active researchers in evolutionary biology |
| Reading the primary literature with a purpose (just-in-time not just-in-case learning) |
| Critically evaluating evidence (data) presented in primary literature |
| Interpreting and presenting data in graphical format |
| Presenting evidence about hypotheses in which they are invested |
| Collaborating with team members to synthesize ideas from different fields of biology |
| Learning to frame a specific argument into a conceptual whole |
| Building a multilayered complex argument from many detailed, specific studies |