General Information - Title of your Dataset: Art Exhibit vs Abstract for Student Comprehension and Public Interest of Disease Ecology Research - Author information: Kyra Ricci, Benjamin McLauchlin, and Jessica Hua - PI name and contact information: Corresponding author: Kyra Ricci (kdricci@wisc.edu); PI: Jessica Hua (jhua23@wisc.edu). University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA - Co-investigator/association name and contact information: Benjamin McLauclin (b.mclauc@gmail.com). Frontier Science & Technology Research Foundation, Amherst, NY, USA - Citation for associated publication Ricci, K., McLauchlin, B., and Hua, J. (2023). Impact of a Science Art Exhibit on Public Interest and Student Comprehension of Disease Ecology Research. Journal of Microbiology and Biology Education. - Date of data collection (range or single date) 2 May 2016-9 May 2016 Sharing/Access Info - Licenses placed on data, if any: - Was data derived from another source? NO. Methodological Information - Description of methods use for collection/generation of data: self-report survey (see Supplimental Materials for full survey) - Methods for processing data: repeated measures ANOVA (rANOVA) in SPSS 25 (IBM) - Instrument or software-specific needed to interpret the data: n/a - Other such as experimental conditions: students read abstract two papers, attended art exhibit (based on the content of those two papers), or did neither. Members of pblic attended art exhibit only.