Students become comfortable integrating information from the literature. Students learn to integrate various concepts and information. Students demonstrate the ability to analyze problems and issues at a deeper and more complex level. When students can detect logical fallacies. They question and show skepticism.
Students begin thinking like scientists.
They show skepticism. Students can understand and identify on an exam the nature of science as a way of knowing versus other ways of knowing. They appreciate the benefits of answering a question using science. They can differentiate good science from pseudo science or non-science. They are comfortable with and appreciate uncertainty, complexity and questioning.