REU Site: Training in Basic and Applied Psychological Science

REU 网站：基础和应用心理科学培训

• 批准号: 1852373
• 负责人: Charles Scherbaum
• 金额: $ 33.57万
• 依托单位: CUNY Baruch College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-06-01 至 2022-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1852373&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; Training; Basic; Applied

This project is funded from the Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Sites program in the SBE Directorate. It has both scientific and societal benefits in addition to integrating research and education. 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. The REU site at Baruch College offers advanced research training to undergraduate students who attend Baruch College, colleges within the City University of New York (CUNY), and other educational institutions in the New York metropolitan area. Baruch College and CUNY in general boast a diverse student body. Although the recruitment is open to any NSF eligible undergraduate students, 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) identify early promising minority, disabled, and economically disadvantaged students throughout the New York metropolitan area, 2) increase psychological scientists exposure to cultural and minority issues in psychological research, 3) prepare REU students for advanced graduate training in psychology and ultimately for careers in academic settings, and 4) develop a pipeline to provide a pool of talented and diverse undergraduate students to become the research scientists of the future. REU students conduct independent research under the supervision of an REU faculty member working in an area that matches the student's expressed interests (e.g., developmental psychology, clinical psychology, social psychology, or industrial/organizational psychology). Each student focuses on planning and executing studies with the intention of presenting papers at professional conferences and submitting manuscripts to peer-reviewed journals. Specifically, REU students develop research questions and hypotheses that are grounded in the literature. In order to answer these newly developed research questions and hypotheses, REU students design research protocols and plan data collection. Then, REU students learn via hands-on experience the value of statistical analysis, use of statistical software to draw inferences about the data, and presentation skills to disseminate the findings gained in their research. Alongside with the conduct of their research projects, REU students complete a series of structured activities aimed at preparing them to apply to graduate school. These activities, such as attending professional development seminars and workshops, participating at colloquium in the field of psychology, listening to invited guest speakers from graduate program admission offices, are coordinated by the Baruch College REU program.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该项目由SBE董事会的本科生研究经验（REU）网站计划资助。除了整合研究和教育之外，它还具有科学和社会效益。美国国家科学基金会和美国心理协会的统计数据表明，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仍然不足。巴鲁克学院的REU网站为参加巴鲁克学院，纽约（CUNY）内的学院以及纽约大都市地区的其他教育机构的本科生提供高级研究培训。巴鲁克学院和纽约市立大学一般拥有多元化的学生团体。虽然招聘是开放给任何NSF合格的本科生，这个程序的目的是增加少数民族，低收入，第一代大学生和残疾学生在科学心理学的代表性。具体来说，该程序执行以下操作：1）在整个纽约大都市地区识别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，2）增加心理科学家在心理研究中接触文化和少数民族问题，3）为REU学生准备心理学高级研究生培训，并最终在学术环境中的职业生涯，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。REU学生在REU教师的监督下进行独立研究，该教师在与学生表达的兴趣相匹配的领域工作（例如，发展心理学、临床心理学、社会心理学或工业/组织心理学）。每个学生都专注于规划和执行研究，目的是在专业会议上发表论文，并向同行评审期刊提交手稿。具体来说，REU学生开发的研究问题和假设是在文献中接地。为了回答这些新开发的研究问题和假设，REU学生设计研究协议和计划数据收集。然后，REU学生通过实践经验学习统计分析的价值，使用统计软件对数据进行推断，以及传播研究结果的演示技巧。除了他们的研究项目的进行，REU学生完成一系列结构化的活动，旨在准备他们申请研究生院。这些活动，如参加专业发展研讨会和讲习班，参加心理学领域的座谈会，听取研究生项目招生办公室邀请的嘉宾演讲，由巴鲁克学院REU计划协调。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来支持。