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\section{Next steps}  \label{sec:next-steps}  The instructors believe that the synchronization of lecture and lab topics, and especially the focus on statistics in the first half of the semester, has improved the quality of student work in the lab. Finding the right balance of topics in the lecture will require further iterations experimentation in subsequent editions  of the course, and at least one more semester of significant development by both instructors. Based on our experience with this semester's edition, we will expand the pre-test to include problems on statistics and foundational topics in astronomy, such as the inverse square law for flux. These pre-test questions are asked again on the final to provide a measurement of the student gain (eq.~\ref{eqn:gain}). This allows us to assess how well we are doing as we make further changes to the course.