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Student-teacher teams enter data to an online database and submit datasheets to the program coordinator. University staff audits collected data to ensure proper procedures, replications, and calculations. This assures that the data meets quality assurance objectives. Raw and audited data is available online for web-based query.
Students and teachers compare data and relate their results and activities to those of other student-teacher teams and to broader university and agency projects. Students can compare, contrast and explore how parameters change with time and between watersheds because all data is collected in the same way, using the same equipment for each team and by prior students
As it was the first year of the program, not all Fall 2003 data met precision goals for the project. However, these data were included in the database for comparison with subsequent years. As teachers and students familiarize themselves with project procedures, precision goals will be more stringently enforced for quality-assurance.