REU Site: An Invitation to Basic and Applied Science of Psychology: Research Experiences for Undergraduates at Baruch College - CUNY

在巴鲁克学院的REU网站提供先进的研究培训，本科生谁参加巴鲁克学院和其他教育机构在纽约大都市地区。每个REU学生在REU教职员工的监督下进行独立研究，该教职员工在与学生表达的兴趣相匹配的领域工作（例如，社会心理学、工业/组织心理学、发展心理学、心理测量学和睡眠），以及加入该教员的研究团队。 每个学生专注于心理学的一个领域，规划和执行研究，目的是在专业会议上发表论文，并向高质量的同行评审期刊提交手稿。REU学生回顾文献，并开发基于文献的研究问题和假设。他们设计研究项目来收集解决实证问题的数据。REU学生执行他们开发的研究协议。学生学习统计分析的价值，并熟悉使用计算机程序来描述和从数据中得出推论。学生还可以获得研究传播和演示艺术的经验。这项研究的结果将在巴鲁克REU会议上发表，并可能在国家会议和同行评审期刊上发表。REU学生完成一系列结构化的学习活动，旨在帮助他们准备参与心理学研究的各个阶段，并申请研究生院。美国国家科学基金会和美国心理学会的统计数据表明，非裔美国人、西班牙裔美国人、亚裔美国人、美洲原住民和残疾人在心理学领域的代表性持续不足。该计划旨在增加少数民族，低收入，第一代大学生和残疾学生在科学心理学中的代表性。具体来说，该程序执行以下操作：1）为学生准备心理学的高级研究生培训，并最终在学术环境中的职业生涯，2）确定早期有前途的少数民族，残疾人和经济上处于不利地位的学生在整个纽约大都市区，并为他们在科学心理学的职业生涯做好准备，3）增加心理科学家在心理研究中接触文化和少数民族问题，以及4）发展一个管道，提供一个人才库和多样化的本科生，成为未来的研究科学家。总之，这个REU网站程序作为一个模型，提供研究经验的本科生从代表性不足的群体参加城市大学和学院。

Intellectual Merit The REU site at Baruch College offers advanced research training to undergraduate students who attend Baruch College and other educational institutions in the New York metropolitan area. Each REU student conducts independent research under the supervision of an REU faculty member working in an area that matches the student's expressed interests (e.g., social psychology, industrial/organizational psychology, developmental psychology, psychometrics, and sleep), as well as joining that faculty member's research team. Each student focuses on one area of psychology, planning and executing studies with the intention of presenting papers at professional conferences and submitting manuscripts to quality peer-reviewed journals. The REU students review the literature and develop research questions and hypotheses that are grounded in the literature. They design research projects to gather data that address the empirical questions. The REU students execute the research protocols that they develop. Students learn the value of statistical analyses and become comfortable with the use of computer programs for describing and drawing inferences from data. Students also gain experiences in the art of research dissemination and presentation. The results of this research are presented at the Baruch REU conference and potentially at national conferences and peer-reviewed journals. REU students complete a series of structured learning activities aimed at preparing them to be involved in all stages of psychological research and apply to graduate school. Broader Impacts Statistics from the NSF and the American Psychological Association indicate continual under-representation of African Americans, Hispanics, Asian Americans, Native Americans, and individuals with disabilities in the field of psychology. This program is designed to increase the representation of minority, low-income, first generation college students, and disabled students in scientific psychology. Specifically, the program does the following: 1) prepare students for advanced graduate training in psychology and ultimately for careers in academic settings, 2) identify early promising minority, disabled, and economically disadvantaged students throughout the New York metropolitan area and prepare them for careers in scientific psychology, 3) increase psychological scientists exposure to cultural and minority issues in psychological research, and 4) develop a pipeline to provide a pool of talented and diverse undergraduate students to become the research scientists of the future. In summary, this REU Site program serves as a model for offering research experiences to undergraduate students from underrepresented groups attending urban universities and colleges.