NRT-IGE: Training Graduate Students as Research Mentors for Undergraduates

NRT-IGE：将研究生培训为本科生的研究导师这个国家科学基金会研究培训(NRT)奖设在加州大学伯克利分校的研究生教育创新(IGE)轨道上，将通过培训研究生作为本科生研究人员的导师，测试研究型大学本科生接触科学的方式的改进。本科生经常被纳入研究项目，作为成为科学家的开始步骤。对他们经验的研究表明，形成良好的指导关系是在科学实践的这些关键第一阶段获得积极经验的关键。研究生经常出席并积极参与指导本科生的研究项目，他们有一个特别好的机会来确保本科生在他们的研究中茁壮成长，从而导致更多的本科生选择继续在科学领域工作。学习成为好的导师也提高了研究生研究人员的职业技能，他们后来成为大学和行业的首席科学家。该项目将为研究生导师培训对本科生、研究生自身和国家科学界产生的潜在积极影响提供新的见解。该项目将在加州大学伯克利分校一个成功的测试计划的基础上，试验和评估该方法在培训STEM领域和研究环境中的学生导师方面的有效性。参与者培训将包括为期一学期的专业发展课程，然后在指导本科生研究人员的同时练习他们的新技能。在该方案的另外两次迭代期间，将使用形成性评价结果来改进培训要素和课程课程。关于不同学科研究生培训成效的数据将用于改进和调整针对不同STEM领域和背景的学生的培训材料。通过扩大测试人群，将那些在与本科生合作之前没有参加正式指导课程但使用培训材料的研究生导师包括在内，该项目将评估新开发的材料将如何适用于自我指导的学生。该项目将对向研究生提供正式研究指导培训的效果进行首批系统调查之一，包括审查不同学科群对不同技术有效性的差异。该项目将为研究生指导本科生研究人员制作一个资源工具包，并将在国家层面上共享。NSF研究培训(NRT)计划旨在鼓励开发和实施大胆、新的、潜在的变革性和可扩展的STEM研究生教育培训模式。研究生教育创新轨道专门致力于试验、测试和评估研究生教育的新颖、创新和潜在的变革性方法。

NRT-IGE: Training Graduate Students as Research Mentors for UndergraduatesThis National Science Foundation Research Traineeship (NRT) award in the Innovations in Graduate Education (IGE) Track to the University of California-Berkeley will test improvements to the way undergraduates are introduced to science in research universities through training graduate students to serve as mentors for undergraduate researchers. Undergraduates are often included in research projects as beginning steps to becoming scientists. Research on their experiences points to the formation of good mentoring relationships as a key to positive experiences in these critical first stages in the practice of science. Graduate students, who are often present and actively engaged in supervising undergraduate research projects, have an especially good opportunity to ensure that undergraduates thrive in their research, leading to more undergraduates choosing to continue in science fields. Learning to be good mentors also enhances the career skills of graduate researchers, who go on to be lead scientists in universities and industries. This project will provide new insights into the potential positive effects that providing training for graduate mentors has on undergraduates, on graduate students themselves, and on the national science community.Building on a successful test-program at UC-Berkeley, this project will pilot and assesses the approach's efficacy in training student mentors from a range of STEM fields and research settings. Participant training will include a semester-long professional development course prior to practicing their new skills while mentoring undergraduate researchers. Formative evaluation results will be used to refine the training elements and course curricula during two additional iterations of the program. Data on the effectiveness of the training for graduate students from different disciplines will be used to refine and adapt the training materials for students from different STEM fields and backgrounds. By expanding the test population to include graduate student mentors who do not take the formal mentoring course prior to working with undergraduates, but who use the training materials, the project will assess how the newly developed materials will work for students who are self-guided mentors. This project will produce one of the first systematic investigations of the effects of providing formal training in research mentoring to graduate students, including examining variations among discipline clusters on the effectiveness of different techniques. The project will produce a resource tool-kit for graduate student mentoring of undergraduate researchers that will be made shared on a national level.The NSF Research Traineeship (NRT) Program is designed to encourage the development and implementation of bold, new, potentially transformative, and scalable models for STEM graduate education training. The Innovations in Graduate Education Track is dedicated solely to piloting, testing, and evaluating novel, innovative, and potentially transformative approaches to graduate education.