While independent undergraduate research projects mentored by faculty members that advance new knowledge may be considered the gold standard, having all students moving through a curriculum gain experience with the research process and how new knowledge is built on existing literature and previous data has an important place in advancing undergraduate research and the education of students.  This paper describes a round robin approach to a series of multi-week projects in a required capstone laboratory for majors. As teams advance from one experiment to the next they build on the work of the previous team. The vision of the pedagogy will be discussed, how teams learn about the previous groups work will be explained, sample projects overviewed and an analysis of student gains based on students oral and written work shared.<br/>

Theory and experiment laboratory: Modeling the research experience in a capstone curricular laboratory

253rd National Meeting (2017)

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