Poster Session format....?

[Colleen J. Burnham]

We have a poster session at the end of each semester for which all of our "researching" seniors are expected to prepare a poster.  While this sounds good in principle, we've unfortunately evolved to a point where all of our seniors are doing "thought studies", i.e., they are essentially producing 25 page literature reviews.

So here we are, coming up on the scheduled and advertised poster session with only 20 or so lit review papers (and zero "science" projects or studies) that have to be put into poster format. In the past, we've had the 2 or 3 students doing lit reviews force their papers into a sort of scientific format: abstract, basic introduction, body, discussion, and potential future research. With so many this year, and the commitment to a poster session, it seems we should come up with a different standard that while making it clear to the "paper-writers" that presenting literature reviews as posters is really not appropriate or professional, they still must be able to put the review into a format that makes it "glance-able" and reviewable by their mentors and peers.  (We are going to eliminate the option to produce a literature review next year; this is a one-time dilemma.)

I'll appreciate any thoughts, comments, advice, etc that anyone might offer... :-) ...!!

thanks!!

cjb

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Colleen J. Burnham
Teaching Associate, Psychology
Colby College
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