A tiered lesson plan was created and implemented in the Fall of 2016 in Advanced Scientific Research. After a series of pre-assessments, including summer work holistic rubric to assess their research knowledge and skill level, a multiple-choice pretest to pre-assess their APA and research feature knowledge, and an initial small group conference to pre-assess their research at internship type, students attend a second small group conference called the Research Map Conference. Groups of 3-4 students are created based on the pre-assements of their research level (low, middle and high) and on the type of research at internship (science lab based, engineering, education, law, medicine, etc.)
The resources for this lesson plan can be downloaded from the files below.

research_concept_map_and_conference_directions_fall_2016.ppt |

research_concept_map_and_conference_examples_fall_2016.ppt |