Scientific research skills

Scientific research skills in all fields include:

• Researching background literature.
• Developing a research question.
• Creating hypotheses.
• Conducting experiments.
• Recording and analyzing data.
• Presenting results.
• Ensuring quality standards are met.
• Organizing testing.
• Developing original solutions to problems.
• Keeping current with relevant scientific, professional, and technical changes or developments.
• Developing your scientific research skil

After reading the study materials in this unit on scientific research skills, respond to the following:

• What are the three scientific research skills you are most comfortable with and the three you feel you need to work on the most?
• How will you continue to evolve in your understanding of those scientific research skills with which you feel most confident?
• What resources will you use to enhance your learning and comprehension of those scientific research skills with which you feel less confident?