Professors at research universities are often depicted as indifferent to undergraduate education, and research itself has been cast as the enemy of good undergraduate teaching. Because of the Quest program's emphasis on small classes, enrollment in each course is limited. Not at all. If you leave it all till the last minute, you won't have time to sit back and think about the data you get. Then you'll have to make a story out of what the data tell you.
Heist asks for volunteers to form the sampling groups.
All of your colleagues will depend on you and your data. Whether they go directly to the working world or on to graduate school and research, this stuff is invaluable. Heist and McIntyre's undergraduates are learning to work in the same way professional researchers do, Dean Green says. The students will learn by working together, discussing findings, and critiquing each other's methods. Faculty researchers learn from one another in the same way, he says.