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An undergraduate program has just begun a year-long curriculum that integrates writing and science. The goals of the project are to increase interest in the subject matter and increase student skills in writing about problem-solving strategies that require the use of scientific inquiry.

As the evaluator, one of your goals is to evaluate the curriculum's impact on students who have a history of performing poorly in one subject, but well in the other. To measure impact, you will administer a pre-implementation questionnaire to the students. At the end of the year, you will do a post-implementation questionnaire and compare the two. You hope that the results of the pre-implementation questionnaire will also provide formative data to help the instructors improve the course.