Research Reflection Guidelines

The following wiki page is intended to help teams who have an established experimental method/apparatus and are collecting data. There are other guidelines for those in a design and development phase of research.

The following format and guiding questions for your report can be found below.

Background

The background section provides a means of describing where you started two weeks ago.

• What did your learn from your previous lab report and what new insights did you gain?
• Were the experimental results as you anticipated? If not, why does your team think so?
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Bold the hypothesis/hypotheses that you had wanted to test over these two weeks.

• What evidence/knowledge led to this hypothesis? Be specific and refer to the wiki pages, previous reports, and/or scientific literature.

Experimental Design

• What are the experiments you planned to conduct that would allow you to test these hypotheses?
• Were there any modifications to experimental methodology? If there were, describe them. Reference a process control file or provide a modified diagram of the experimental reactor.