Collaborative Research: Directed Reading Program Network

该项目将创建一个定向阅读计划网络（DRPN），以（a）调查广泛和不断增长的近同伴数学辅导计划的教育和社会影响，（B）支持现有计划之间的沟通和最佳实践。 2003年，该项目的两名高级人员在芝加哥大学发起了定向阅读项目（DRP），该项目目前在不少于14所学院和大学开展，并计划在至少4所大学开设。 DRP由研究生在教师的监督下在当地运行，将研究生导师与本科生导师配对，进行数学阅读项目。 以前，DRPs的运行没有跨站点的集中规划或数据收集，该项目的主要成果之一是通过有意记录DRPN成员机构所做的工作来纠正这种监督。该项目计划弥补错过的机会，学习数学的学生谁在他们的专业发展的关键时刻参加DRPs，而不妨碍基层和学生驱动的程序设计。该项目的教育研究部分将由加州大学伯克利分校的社会心理学家Ozlem Ayduk进行，他是STEM领域拒绝敏感性，身份形成和导师-学员关系的主要社会心理学研究人员之一。 此外，该项目将资助2018年初在麻省理工学院举办的研讨会，使当前和计划中的DRP能够讨论使用这些计划扩大STEM参与的最佳实践。 最后，一个小而重要的“种子基金”将为选定的少数新项目提供支持，以在少数竞争性选定的DRPN成员机构实施研讨会的想法。

This project will create a Directed Reading Program Network (DRPN) to (a) investigate the educational and social impacts of a widespread and growing near-peer mathematics mentoring program, and (b) support communication and best practices among already-existing programs. Initiated at the University of Chicago in 2003 by two of this project's senior personnel, Directed Reading Programs (DRPs) now run at no fewer than fourteen colleges and universities, with plans to open on at least four more campuses. DRPs are run locally by graduate students under faculty oversight, pairing graduate student mentors with undergraduate mentees to work on mathematics reading projects. Previously DRPs have been run with no centralized planning or data collection across sites, and one of the chief outcomes of this project is to rectify this oversight by intentionally documenting the work done at DRPN member institutions. The project plans to remedy the missed opportunity to study mathematics students who participate in DRPs at a key juncture in their professional development without impeding the grassroots and student-driven design of the program. The educational research component of this project will be conducted by social psychologist Ozlem Ayduk of University of California at Berkeley, who is one of the premier social psychology researchers on rejection sensitivity, identity-formation, and mentor-mentee relationships in STEM fields. In addition, the project will fund a workshop at MIT in early 2018 which will enable current and planned DRPs to discuss best practices for using these programs to broaden STEM participation. Finally, a small but crucial "seed fund" will offer a boost to a selected handful of new programs to implement ideas from the workshop at a few competitively selected DRPN member institutions.