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Citation: Moraru, Andreea., Labutiller, Janelle. Enhancing undergraduate critical reading skills in neuroscience using instructor-developed study, collected essays on teaching and learning, 1(2): 122-127.

    The aims of this study are improving undergraduate neuroscience students critical reading in translating across multiple disciplines and reading a scientific journal article. In this study, the researchers stated most of the undergraduate neuroscience students get difficulties in analyzing and interpreting or reviewing journal articles. However, in this study, the researchers did not mention about the phase of the study. They stated that the first activity in this research is the students are asked to make a question due to the article in the web courses.The researchers asked to them to do it repeatedly. Then at the mid-term, the students are asked to write the possible question according to the text in the web courses. Those questions will be used for the final exam, and the questions consist of 15 multiple choice and 7 short answer questions. Then, each student must present the questions in a slide and ask the other students to give response to that questions whether those are too difficult, moderately difficult,  moderately easy, easy or no option. The finding of this study states that those activities are useful for the students in improving the students critical reading skill.