Translatable Research Group-Based Undergraduate Research Program for Lower-Division Students
Translatable Research Group-Based Undergraduate Research Program for Lower-Division Students
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DOI：
10.1021/acs.jchemed.9b00159
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发表时间：
2019-09-01
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3
通讯作者：
Alivisatos, A. Paul
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作者：
Hauwiller, Matthew R.;Ondry, Justin C.;Alivisatos, A. Paul
参与本科生的研究对本科生产生了积极的结果，大学正在寻找方法，让更多的学生在他们学术生涯的早期参与本科生的研究。通常，本科生进行研究，要么是作为学徒制的一部分，即学生在研究实验室中接受感兴趣领域经验丰富的研究人员的个人指导，要么是在以课程为基础的本科生研究经验中，学生在教室或教学实验室工作，研究开放式研究问题。在这项工作中，我们实现了一个本科生研究模型，该模型结合了这两种方法的各个方面，为本科生和研究小组提供了好处。加州大学伯克利分校的20名一年级本科生被招募参与一个项目，调查Alivisatos研究小组之前收集的数据。在一个学期的时间里，这些学生学习了纳米材料和研究过程，以团队形式进行好奇心驱动的研究，并在正式的海报会议上展示了他们的结果。该项目的学生在他们作为研究人员和科学家的自我认同方面显示出可量化的收获。该计划旨在成为其他研究小组、部门和大学的典范，将传统学徒制研究和以课程为基础的本科生研究相结合，为大量大学教育早期的本科生提供研究经验。
Participating in undergraduate research yields positive outcomes for undergraduate students, and universities are seeking ways to engage more students in undergraduate research earlier in their academic careers. Typically, undergraduate students perform research either as part of an apprenticeship where a student receives individual mentorship in a research lab setting from an experienced researcher in the field of interest or in a course-based undergraduate research experience where students work in a classroom or teaching laboratory to investigate open-ended research questions. In this work, we implement a model of undergraduate research that combines aspects of those two methods to provide benefits to undergraduate students and research groups. A cohort of 20 first-year undergraduate students at the University of California-Berkeley were recruited to work on a project investigating data previously collected by the Alivisatos research group. Over a semester, these students learned about nanomaterials and the research process, pursued curiosity-driven research in teams, and presented their results at a formal poster session. Students from this program showed quantifiable gains in their self-identification as researchers and scientists. This program was developed to be a model for other research groups, departments, and universities to combine the benefits of traditional apprenticeship research and course-based undergraduate research to provide a research experience for large numbers of undergraduate students early in their college education.