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DeLucia, Patricia R.; Woods, Amanda L.; Kim, Jeong-Hee; Nguyen, Ngan; Wang, Eugene W.; Yang, James – Scholarship and Practice of Undergraduate Research, 2021
This article reports results of a research study at a National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) site focused on psychological research with clear applications to the real world. Two cohorts of undergraduates engaged in rigorous research projects with implications for real-world problems such as driving, homeland…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Research, Research Training, Psychological Studies
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Mary Ellen Dello Stritto; Naomi R. Aguiar; Greta R. Underhill; Cat Turk; Gretchen Lohry-Smith; Raquel Lamantain – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2025
In higher education, online students are often precluded from research assistantships that are more accessible for campus-based students. At a highly ranked institution for online learning, we developed the Undergraduate Research Program (URP) to address this gap in opportunities for online students. The URP is designed to engage fully distanced…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Distance Education, Student Research, Research Opportunities
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Dorota Lubanska; Sami Alrashed; Lia Oschanney; Alan Cieslukowski; Ali Nadi; Philip Habashy; Adam Renaud; Antonio Roye-Azar; Mohamed Soliman; Kadila Adili; Allison Baker; Maliha Baseet; Amy Llancari; Aiden Mitrevski; Sahar Mouawad; Kim Nguyen; Alexandra Sorge; Katie Zuccato; Emmanuel Boujeke; Jason Cala; Stephanie Dinescu; Marissa Ho; Almas Khan; Deya'a Almasri; Daniel Dunn; Hasan Ghafoor; Eddie Grimmett; Elie Mouawad; Ria Patel; Milica Paunic; Depen Sharma; Tiana Visconti; Vanessa Vuong; Lisa A. Porter – Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, 2024
For close to 2 years, we have witnessed the impacts of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic on research at several different levels. Among the list, limited access to laboratory-based training for undergraduate students prevented this cohort from gaining exposure to the realities of a research laboratory at a critical time in training when they may have found…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Electronic Learning, Student Research, Student Experience
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Hernandez, Paul R.; Ferguson, Carinna F.; Pedersen, Rachelle; Richards-Babb, Michelle; Quedado, Kimberly; Shook, Natalie J. – Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning, 2023
High-quality mentoring relationships help college students to achieve their academic potential and career goals. However, less is known about factors that shape the antecedents of mentoring relationships (e.g. mentor-protégé psychological similarity), or the impact of similarities on the development of high-quality mentoring relationships. The…
Descriptors: Mentors, Longitudinal Studies, Academic Achievement, Teacher Student Relationship
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Duncan, Natasha; Brown, Nadia – Journal of Political Science Education, 2021
Learning-by-doing presents an opportunity for political science departments to instruct undergraduate students in social science research methods. Conducting these trainings as short-term, high impact programs have the potential to make research and research methods accessible and appealing to students. Building these opportunities around major…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Political Science, Undergraduate Students, Research Training
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Alicia J. Lozano; Monica L. Ahrens; Genevieve R. Lyons; Jennie Z. Ma; Sarah J. Ratcliffe; Alexandra L. Hanlon – Journal of STEM Education: Innovations and Research, 2024
Background: The field of collaborative biostatistics plays a critical role in translating scientific discoveries into practical applications by providing sound statistical analysis, ensuring data integrity, and facilitating interdisciplinary collaboration in translational science and decision-making in healthcare. The role of a collaborative…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Health Education, Statistics Education, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Alex Barwick; Louise Horstmanshof – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2025
Research honours programs are traditionally used in Australian universities to build and evaluate research capacity in undergraduate health students. The effectiveness of such programs in achieving this in the current higher education landscape has not recently been explored. This mixed methods study examined 66 health research honours programs.…
Descriptors: Research Training, Honors Curriculum, Universities, Undergraduate Students
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Fan, Guanhua; Huang, Zijian; Sun, Hong; Li, Zihua; Wu, Xiaoman; Li, Congsen; Lin, Chunbiao; Zhan, Weijie; Li, Zibo; Zheng, Chunwen; Xie, Weijie; Zou, Haiying; Wu, Bingli; Fang, Wangkai; Xu, Liyan; Yang, Mianhua; Zheng, Shaoyan; Li, Enmin – Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, 2023
Presently, a variety of policies and measures has implemented to enhance the scientific research and innovation ability of medical students, but in the process of practice, there are many problems, such as they lack of independent topic selection ability, weak scientific research skills, lack of autonomous learning ability, the research results…
Descriptors: Biochemistry, Science Instruction, Medical Students, Student Attitudes
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Gilbertson, Lynn; Rowe, Jeannine; Kim, Yeongmin; Chan, Catherine W. M.; Schemm, Naomi; Unhoch, Michael – Scholarship and Practice of Undergraduate Research, 2021
This article describes a multidisciplinary, asynchronous, 10-hour online training program for undergraduates enrolled in a mentored research apprentice program, addressing communication skills, knowledge of the research process, information literacy, and research ethics. A pretest-posttest survey was completed to assess students' perceived gains…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Research Training, Research Skills, Skill Development
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Stormes, Kaitlyn N.; Streicker, Nicole A.; Bowers, Graham K.; Ayala, Perla; Urizar, Guido G., Jr. – Scholarship and Practice of Undergraduate Research, 2022
In this study, researchers at a large, urban, comprehensive minority-serving institution used propensity score matching to identify a unique comparison group to study academic and graduate school outcomes in students served by the National Institutes of Health-funded Building Infrastructure Leading to Diversity (BUILD) Initiative. Acknowledging…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Research Training, Minority Serving Institutions, Outcomes of Education
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Walters, Linda J.; Schneider, Kimberly R.; Tripp, Mary L. – Scholarship and Practice of Undergraduate Research, 2022
Undergraduate retention, graduation, and postgraduation success are greater when students engage in undergraduate research. This article describes a grassroots, faculty-initiated effort to increase the number of students who received research experiences at a large, urban institution. Peer course coaches, students who had previously taken a course…
Descriptors: Coaching (Performance), Peer Relationship, Undergraduate Students, Student Research
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Morales, Danielle X.; Grineski, Sara E.; Collins, Timothy W. – Studies in Higher Education, 2021
Faculty-mentored summer undergraduate research experiences (SUREs) have been shown to increase the diversity of students pursuing research careers. No existing studies have approached the issue of broadening participation in STEM research training by focusing on mentoring relationship heterogeneity (MRH) in the context of SUREs. Increasing MRH…
Descriptors: Mentors, College Faculty, Undergraduate Students, Graduate Students
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Fung, Ellen B.; Frey, Mark R.; Valmont, Mary Eustace; Caffey-Fleming, Dolores E.; Fraser, Marilyn; Williams, Janille; Killilea, David W.; Bogenmann, Emil; Livshits, Solomon; Boone, David N. – Journal of STEM Outreach, 2021
In 2020, STEM training programs across the country were challenged to provide support to students during a nation-wide shutdown of research institutions in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Five U.S. high school science internship programs funded by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, with a history of collaboration, developed innovative…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Electronic Learning, Virtual Classrooms, COVID-19
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Amaresh, Sneha A.; Gámez, Raúl; LePrevost, Catherine E.; Lee, Joseph G. L. – Journal of College Student Development, 2022
Research opportunities--in addition to culturally relevant programming, mentorship, professional development, and college funding--have been found to contribute to Latinx students' understanding, confidence, and awareness of research in college (Russell et al., 2007). While programs such as the Migrant Education Program and the College Assistance…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Undergraduate Students, Research Training, Student Attitudes
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Michel, Brittany C.; Fulp, Sherri; Drayton, Danielle; White, Karen Burns – Journal of STEM Outreach, 2021
STEM training of college-bound and college students has reliably employed hands-on experiential learning by placing students in on-campus research settings. Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center's Young Empowered Scientists for ContinUed Research Engagement (DF/HCC's YES for CURE) program introduces Massachusetts high school and college students from…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, First Generation College Students, High School Students, Minority Group Students
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