Why TERSE reports?
The aim of TERSE reports is to make short, succinct summaries of small-scale experiments in education available to a wide and non-specialist audience. Its format offers many advantages: • The length is just enough to convey the important information about an experiment, but short enough to make it easily absorbed. It is not intended to provide enough information to enable the reader to replicate the study (although many conventional reports also fail to do this), so where possible it provides references to more extended reports. • The structured format has been widely adopted for abstracts in many journals in medicine, psychology etc, since it has been shown to aid comprehension. • The length and structure make it very easy to write.
