Value, Impact and Best Practices: Maximizing REU SBE Potential

价值、影响和最佳实践：最大化 REU SBE 潜力

• 批准号: 1216555
• 负责人: Elizabeth Ambos
• 金额: $ 4.67万
• 依托单位: Council on Undergraduate Research
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-05-15 至 2014-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1216555&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Value; Impact; Best; Practices; Maximizing

The Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR) is hosting a 1.5 day conference in Washington, DC, devoted to Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) in the fields of Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences. The conference brings together veteran REU awardees and their students, new awardees, and faculty who aspire to win REU grants for their institutions or send their students to REU programs. Participants hear from plenary speakers on the research showing the value and impact of undergraduate research and best practices in undergraduate research programs. Breakout sessions address relevant topics, e.g. how to institutionalize, sustain, and evaluate undergraduate research programs, and scaffolding undergraduate research experiences from first through fourth year. At least one breakout session is designed specifically for student participants, e.g. leveraging undergraduate research experiences for future career success. Following the conference, CUR will publish conference proceedings with plenary addresses, PowerPoint presentations, and summaries of breakout sessions. These will be made available to the CUR network of university faculty and administrators.Intellectual merit. Long-standing REU programs have developed procedures for recruiting and supervising students, providing logistical support, supervising research, teaching research ethics, and disseminating research results. There is currently no mechanism for these experienced programs to share their best practices with existing programs or with new awardees; this conference provides that mechanism. The conference includes student participants in SBE REU programs to (a) share their experiences with principal investigators and NSF program officers and (b) experience an academic conference with other faculty and students in their broad disciplinary area within the SBE sciences.Broader impacts. REU programs are typically developed and managed by researchers who understand research in their own disciplines, but may not know of the scholarship of undergraduate research. This conference helps experienced REU principal investigators put their undergraduate research programs into a broader framework by sharing research on the impact of participating in research. It also helps new principal investigators consider and potentially adopt the appropriate best practices developed in veteran program to their own projects. It helps faculty whose institutions do not currently host an REU program to learn how their students can access REU programs at other institutions, and how they might win REU grants themselves. The conference also addresses issues of interest to all, e.g. institutionalizing REU programs, specific challenges faced by SBE REU sites, securing additional resources, and incorporating appropriate research opportunities into undergraduate curricula.

本科生研究委员会 (CUR) 将在华盛顿特区举办为期 1.5 天的会议，专门讨论社会、行为和经济科学领域本科生的研究经验 (REU)。此次会议汇集了资深 REU 获奖者及其学生、新获奖者以及渴望为其机构赢得 REU 资助或将学生送入 REU 项目的教师。与会者听取了全体演讲者关于研究的介绍，展示了本科生研究的价值和影响以及本科生研究项目的最佳实践。分组会议讨论相关主题，例如如何制度化、维持和评估本科生研究项目，以及如何构建从第一年到第四年的本科生研究经验。至少一场分组讨论是专门为学生参与者设计的，例如利用本科生研究经验来实现未来职业成功。会议结束后，CUR 将发布会议记录，包括全体会议发言、PowerPoint 演示文稿和分组会议摘要。这些将提供给 CUR 大学教师和管理人员网络。智力价值。长期存在的 REU 项目制定了招募和监督学生、提供后勤支持、监督研究、教授研究道德和传播研究成果的程序。目前没有机制让这些经验丰富的项目与现有项目或新的获奖者分享其最佳实践；本次会议提供了这一机制。该会议包括 SBE REU 项目的学生参与者，以 (a) 与主要研究人员和 NSF 项目官员分享他们的经验，以及 (b) 与 SBE 科学内广泛学科领域的其他教师和学生一起体验学术会议。更广泛的影响。 REU 项目通常由研究人员开发和管理，他们了解自己学科的研究，但可能不了解本科生研究的奖学金。这次会议通过分享有关参与研究的影响的研究成果，帮助经验丰富的 REU 首席研究员将他们的本科研究项目纳入更广泛的框架中。它还可以帮助新的主要研究人员考虑并可能将资深项目中开发的适当最佳实践应用于他们自己的项目。它可以帮助那些目前没有举办 REU 项目的院校的教师了解他们的学生如何进入其他院校的 REU 项目，以及他们如何自己赢得 REU 资助。会议还讨论了所有人感兴趣的问题，例如REU 项目制度化、SBE REU 站点面临的具体挑战、确保额外资源以及将适当的研究机会纳入本科课程。