Science Fair Lit Review: How Elicit Builds Yours in an Afternoon

End-of-lesson check

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1. What is a literature review in a science fair project?

   1. The final conclusion you draw from your data
   2. A survey of existing research on your topic that shows what is already known
   3. A summary of all the experiments you conducted for your project
   4. The list of materials you used in your experiment

2. What is Elicit?

   1. A type of scientific equipment used in laboratories
   2. A video game about running a science lab
   3. A computer programming language for building websites
   4. An AI tool designed to help summarize and analyze academic papers

3. What is an abstract in an academic paper?

   1. A brief summary at the beginning of a paper describing its main points
   2. The references section
   3. The list of authors
   4. The full text of the paper

4. What does ISEF stand for?

   1. International Science and Engineering Fair
   2. Independent Science Education Foundation
   3. Internal Science Evaluation Form
   4. International Student Experiment Forum

5. What is the purpose of using Elicit's 'critique' feature?

   1. To find weak studies that you can disqualify from your review
   2. To write your project report for you
   3. To add more papers to your list
   4. To generate random science fair topics

6. Why should you read the top 10 abstracts yourself after using Elicit?

   1. Because Elicit only works on weekends
   2. Because AI summaries can miss important details and you need to verify quotes are accurate
   3. Because the abstracts will be deleted from the internet
   4. Because Elicit requires you to do this before it will work

7. What is the purpose of cross-checking Elicit's results with Google Scholar?

   1. To send emails to researchers
   2. To find free movies online
   3. To confirm citation counts and verify the importance of papers
   4. To translate papers into different languages

8. Why is it important to know the sample size of a study in your literature review?

   1. It makes your project longer
   2. It tells you how much the researchers were paid
   3. Sample size doesn't matter for science fair
   4. Larger sample sizes generally make study results more reliable

9. What should you do with the top papers you find before writing your project?

   1. Delete them to save storage space
   2. Read them while swimming
   3. Save them to a Notion or Docs folder
   4. Ignore them and start writing

10. What is the benefit of using AI tools like Elicit for literature reviews?

    1. AI writes your entire project report
    2. AI guarantees your project will win
    3. AI saves time by quickly processing many papers that would take hours to read manually
    4. AI can conduct the actual experiment for you

11. What does the lesson suggest is the right way to use AI for a teen-life situation?

    1. Using it without understanding what it's doing
    2. Using it with your eyes open and staying involved in the process
    3. Letting the AI make all your decisions
    4. Avoiding AI entirely for schoolwork

12. What is a citation count?

    1. The number of pages in a paper
    2. How many times other researchers have referenced a particular paper
    3. The price of buying a research paper
    4. The number of times you've cited a source in your paper

13. What does the lesson say about the free tier of Elicit?

    1. It doesn't exist
    2. It only works for college students
    3. It requires a credit card
    4. It can be used for science fair projects

14. What is the main advantage of using a prompt like 'What does the literature say about X?' in Elicit?

    1. It makes Elicit work faster
    2. It searches for images instead of text
    3. It automatically writes your entire literature review
    4. It asks Elicit to find and summarize what existing research says on that topic

15. Why might you want to disqualify certain studies from your literature review?

    1. Because your teacher told you to
    2. Because they are too interesting
    3. Because they are too old
    4. Because they have weak methodology or conclusions that make them unreliable