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Lesson Plan: Choosing a Study Design for the Polio Vaccine

September 12, 2019

By Adam Molnar, Oklahoma State University Overview of Lesson This activity, based on real meetings during the 1954 Salk polio vaccine study, asks students to decide on an experimental design to test the polio vaccine. Students take one of multiple roles—such as statistician, parent, and government—that may lead to different design choices. Real-world study design involves … [Read more...] about Lesson Plan: Choosing a Study Design for the Polio Vaccine

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