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For today's teaching, I asked our 1st year undergrads to read 3 primary literature papers & we critiqued together. I was blown away by how much their understanding, depth of questions & ability to think critically. I'm feeling proud of them all, they've done a great job.
It was the 1st time they'd used primary literature or read a whole paper. We've spent the last couple of weeks learning methods but it's so darn dry with no questions to apply them too. I was worried when I sent them the paper that it was going to be a hard tutorial to run.
It was like a 'whistle stop' journal club. We worked through 1 paper looking at a genetic association, 1 using in vitro models to test function of the IDd gene & one using in vivo models. They saw how research builds on past work & we chatted about replication, limitations etc.
So many typos in this thread but you get the gist!
