Primary Literature

A primary goal of graduate education is to enable students to efficiently and critically evaluate the primary literature in their specific field of interest. These materials discuss approaches to teaching science through the primary literature in a manner that puts students in control of their own path to discovery.

• This article by Hoskins et al describes the use of the CREATE method by students to consider, read, elucidate hypotheses, analyze and interpret data, and think of the next experiment based upon a sequence of research articles on a single topic from a single research group. There are several elements of this approach that offer creative opportunities for student engagement with scientific data.