Adjustment is thus a process of information synthesis and communication as well as enhanced decision making and the point at which significant learning occurs (Bormann et al. 2007).
Undergraduate research experiences (UREs) have shown positive effects in increasing students' engagement in their undergraduate studies, an increase in understanding of their field of study; an increase in practical skills such as problem solving, communication, and information synthesis; and an increase in interest in graduate school (Haeger et al. 2015; Willis et al. 2013).
Norbert Wiener first developed a theory of automated information synthesis which he called Cybernetics (Wiener 1961 [1948]).
Information synthesis was a three-step process.
A second challenge pertains to information synthesis.
Faculty mentoring in STEM, when clearly articulated, can enhance positive URE effects with an increase in practical skills, problem solving, communication, and information synthesis (Willis et al. 2013).
In previous research, we used information synthesis and consensus methods to devise an IP SDM model that proposed a new process by which healthcare teams could achieve SDM [ 27, 28].
From defining the question, to surveying traditional and nontraditional resources for information, synthesis of findings, and risk communication, the case provides a model to approach similar questions.
We argue that visual methods can offer more than just information synthesis.
In the described scenario, observations would be carefully partitioned from their interpretation and information synthesis would occur at higher classification levels.
For example, management of the Upper Mississippi River-Illinois Waterway was found [74] to be inadequate to support decision-making because it lacked ecosystem scale understanding and broad information synthesis.
