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ABLE Workshop Adoption Survey: Partial Results

Robert Hodson
University of Delaware
hodson@UDel.Edu


Todd Nickle

Mount Royal College, Calgary
TNickle@mtroyal.ab.ca

 

ABLE members Todd Nickle (Mount Royal College, Calgary) and Bob Hodson (University of Delaware) are conducting a survey of ABLE workshop adoption. They wondered how many of the workshops presented at the national meetings over the years 1990-2000 were used at home institutions, analogous to the number of literature citations for original research papers. Todd constructed an online form and invited participation via an electronic message sent to all current members.

The project is ongoing, but data collected so far from 83 respondents have been analyzed. Of 212 total workshops, 63 were not used at all, 88 were used once, 70 were used sometimes, and 87 were used often. Presented below are the top 10 workshops in the “used often” category. The workshop title, volume, page, and year are presented. The first workshop in the list had six respondents, and the last workshop had three. The complete document is available electronically as an Excel file.

Title
Volume
Page
Year
The Effects of Cattle Grazing on Vegetation in a Shortgrass Prairie Ecosystem
13
93
1991
A Practical Guide to the Use of Cellular Slime Molds for Laboratory Exercises and Experiments
14
1
1992
An Investigation of the Behavior of the Pea Aphid, Acyrthosiphon pisum
15
335
1993
Measurement of Photosynthetic Activity in Plant Cell Fractions
16
71
1994
Reproductive Isolation in Angiosperms
17
117
1995
Avian Niche Partitioning
18
289
1996
A Beginner's Guide to the Study of Plant Structure
19
125
1997
Non-Invasive Recording of Giant Nerve Fiber Action Potentials from Freely Moving Oligochaetes
20
45
1998
Birdsong Playback as a Tool for Teaching Animal Behavior
22
247
2000
Preparation and Presentation of Biology Laboratory Class Materials Through WebCT®
22
310
2000

 

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