Students of animal behavior must learn to accurately define and quantify observations and to be aware of observational bias. We designed an introductory, college-level animal behavior laboratory that uses a free, online citizen-science project (CamClickr) to help students identify and overcome biases when interpreting observations. The exercise encourages proficiency in making structural descriptions of animal behavior while teaching students to use ethograms to generate and test discrete hypotheses.
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Using a Free Online Citizen-Science Project to Teach Observation & Quantification of Animal Behavior
Margaret A. Voss,
Caren B. Cooper
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The American Biology Teacher
Vol. 72 • No. 7
September 2010
Vol. 72 • No. 7
September 2010
animal behavior
ethograms
observational bias
structural descriptions of behavior