Collaborative Research: Directed Reading Program Network

该项目将创建一个定向阅读项目网络（DRPN），以(a)调查广泛且不断增长的近同伴数学辅导项目的教育和社会影响，(b)支持现有项目之间的交流和最佳实践。2003年，该项目的两位资深人员在芝加哥大学发起了定向阅读项目（DRPs），目前在不少于14所学院和大学开展，并计划在至少另外四所校园开展。drp在当地由研究生在教师监督下运作，研究生导师与本科生导师配对，共同完成数学阅读项目。以前，DRPN的运行没有集中规划或跨站点的数据收集，本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疏忽。该项目计划弥补错过的机会，研究那些在专业发展的关键时刻参加DRPs的数学学生，同时不妨碍该项目的基层和学生驱动设计。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领域中拒绝敏感性、身份形成和师弟关系的主要社会心理学研究人员之一。此外，该项目将于2018年初在麻省理工学院资助一个研讨会，使当前和计划中的drp能够讨论使用这些项目扩大STEM参与的最佳实践。最后，一笔规模不大但至关重要的“种子基金”将推动选定的少数新项目在少数经过竞争挑选的DRPN成员机构中实施研讨会的想法。

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.