Research with first- and second-year undergraduates: A new model for undergraduate inquiry at research universities
Research with first- and second-year undergraduates: A new model for undergraduate inquiry at research universities
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一年级和二年级本科生的研究：研究型大学本科生探究的新模式
DOI：
10.1021/ed079p125
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发表时间：
2002
影响因子：
3
通讯作者：
D. Atwood
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作者：
A. Hutchison;D. Atwood
当前化学教育领域的一个热点是利用本科生进行研究。我们在肯塔基大学的团队在这个领域非常活跃，很多时候雇佣的本科生几乎和研究生和博士后研究人员一样多。此外，由于我们一直在努力招募处于职业生涯早期的本科生，因此我们招募的大多数都是一年级和二年级的学生。尽管这与“只有高学历的学生才能从事富有成效的研究”这一流行观点相左，但这一体系对我们来说非常成功，发表了大量论文，取得了许多其他学术成就。我们成功的关键是一个分级指导系统，在这个系统中，每个本科生由一名研究生监督，研究生又由指导老师监督。通过这种方式，本科生可以快速有效地融入实验室和真正的学术研究领域。
One area of current interest in the field of chemical education is the use of undergraduates for doing research. Our group at the University of Kentucky has been very active in this area, many times employing nearly as many undergraduates as graduate students and postdoctoral researchers. Furthermore, because we have made a concerted effort to recruit undergraduates very early in their careers, most of our recruits are first- and second-year students. Although it goes against the popular view that only advanced students are useful for productive research, this system has been extremely successful for us, resulting in numerous publications and many other academic accomplishments. The key to our success is a hierarchical mentoring system in which each undergraduate is supervised by a graduate student, who is in turn supervised by the faculty advisor. In this way, an undergraduate can be quickly and effectively integrated into the lab and the world of true academic research.