Assignment

Demonstrate your learning and earn a badge!

Submit work that showcases your new skills and a reflection on what you’re learning, plus feedback to others
Data for the assignment

You can complete this assignment using our water deer case-study, or your own field data

If you’re using your own field data, you can work with a subset of data to develop an analysis workflow and demonstrate your skills - you don’t need to run the analysis on your full dataset

If using our case study, you need to create at least two new models yourself, representing hypotheses we haven’t tested so far

Include these five elements:

  1. The results 🔢 from the best model from your covariates model set
  2. Estimates 🎯 for density, detectability and ESHW1, including confidence intervals
  3. Interpretation 💡 What is the effect of the covariate(s) on density or detectability? If your best model doesn’t include covariates, why do you think the covariate(s) had no effect?
  4. A brief reflection 🤔, for example on your next step, a challenge you overcame, a problem you’re still trying to solve, or a leap of understanding you experienced
  5. Give feedback 👍 to one or more of your coursemates - see below

Note that each written step need only be 1-2 sentences - you don’t need to craft long paragraphs or spend a lot of time on this!

Feedback guide

Peer feedback

To encourage you to share ideas and expertise, this assignment includes a social aspect where you give feedback

Ensure your feedback is positive, and involves some practical advice or a probing question. The aim is to help everyone extend their skills, consider different approaches, or decide their next steps

For example, you might offer:

  • A suggestion for a way to improve what they’d done, or extend their work
  • An alternative method of achieving the same or similar result
  • A solution to one of their challenges or next steps
  • A question about why they did something a certain way or how they achieved a certain effect
  • Enquiry into what they plan next, or how this moves them forward
Make questions specific!

Generic questions that could be directed to anyone on the course don’t count! 😉

Demonstrate that you’ve thought about their particular situation or piece of work

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