REU Site: Summer Program for Research in Applied Psychology

建议编号：0648946PI姓名：本杰明·R·斯蒂芬斯项目标题：REU网站：应用心理学研究暑期计划应用心理学暑期计划为十名学生参与者提供人类因素、健康和工业/组织心理学方面的研究培训。我们的计划目标是提高有才华的学生对研究、科学和科学事业的兴趣、理解和承诺。这些目标应该增加和维持学生对研究、专业活动和进入研究生课程的参与。被选中的学生将具有强大的数学、生物科学、社会科学和/或工业工程背景，将表现出对科学和研究的潜在兴趣和承诺，并将主要从非研究型学院和大学中挑选。该计划的活动将包括与来自心理学和工业工程系的11名参与教师的监督合作研究计划。支持活动将包括应用心理学研究方法的课程工作、研讨会、实地考察和应用心理学会议。产业、政府和教育领域的研究伙伴将通过参与支持活动和研究项目进行合作。学生们将在应用心理学会议上展示他们的研究成果，其中将包括特邀演讲者的演讲。后续的年度活动将包括为其他专业演示文稿、合作出版物提供差旅支持，并为研究生项目的申请提供建议。我们的计划旨在识别和评估以下技术：1)增加学生对科学和科学职业的理解，2)增加学生对专业活动的参与，3)鼓励学生申请科学研究生课程。更广泛地说，我们的计划通过该计划的明显成功促进了院校层面的本科生研究，通过专业的全国性传播该计划的特点和结果，提供了有效的本科生科学教育模式，促进了代表不足的群体的参与，并通过与国防、工业和政府实体的合作，将该计划的好处扩展到公共和私营部门。

ABSTRACTProposal Number: 0648946PI name: Benjamin R. StephensTitle of Project: REU Site: Summer Program for Research in Applied PsychologyThe Summer Program in Applied Psychology provides ten student participants with research training in human factors, health, and industrial/organizational psychology. Our program objectives are to increase talented student's interest, understanding, and commitment to research, science, and scientific careers. These objectives should increase and sustain student participation in research, professional activities, and entry into graduate programs. The students selected will have strong backgrounds in mathematics, biological science, social science, and/or industrial engineering, will exhibit potential interest and commitment to science and research, and will be selected mainly from non-research colleges and universities. Program activities will include a supervised program of collaborative research with eleven participating faculty from the Psychology and Industrial Engineering Departments. Support activities will include course work in research methods in applied psychology, seminars, site-visits, and the Conference in Applied Psychology. Research partners in industry, government, and education will collaborate via participation in support activities and research projects. Students will present the results of their research at the Conference on Applied Psychology, which will include presentations from invited speakers. Follow-through annual activities will include travel support for additional professional presentations, collaborative publications, and advising to support applications to graduate programs. Our program is designed to identify and evaluate techniques that 1) increase student understanding of science and science careers, 2) increase student participation in professional activities, and 3) encourage student application to graduate programs in science. More broadly, our program promotes undergraduate research at the institutional level through the visible success of the program, provides a model of effective undergraduate science education through professional national dissemination of the program characteristics and outcomes, promotes participation by underrepresented groups, and extends the benefits of the program to the public and private sector through partnerships with defense, industry, and government entities.