Undergraduate Research Training Through Replication Team Science with the Collaborative Replications and Education Project

本项目旨在通过实施和评估用于本科生研究的增强型协作复制和教育项目（CREP）模型的有效性，为国家利益服务。当前版本的CREP通过复制已发表的实验来支持学生进行本科研究训练。在这个模型中，CREP选择最近的心理学研究，这些研究可以被学生独立地复制，然后组织和帮助那些想要监督这些项目的教师，作为他们课程的一部分。该项目扩展了当前的CREP模式，从美国各地挑选学生参加每月两次的队列会议，在那里他们可以展示自己的工作，并有机会为未来的学生群体担任同伴导师。该项目的另一个目标是评估CREP作为提高研究技能、研究素养、对心理学的批判性思维的工具，并为一系列学生提供研究经验。这个项目可能会影响心理学和其他STEM学科，为教师提供一个让学生在他们的课程背景下参与真实研究的模型。本项目旨在评估一个改进的CREP模式对本科生研究项目的教学效果。Wagge及其同事（2019）概述了标准的CREP项目，该项目支持学生及其教师完成直接复制项目，作为本科课程的一部分。在这个项目中，CREP团队为学生选择研究，学生团队在世界各地的不同机构完成这些研究的复制。当CREP在数据收集之前和之后对项目进行审查时，他们与CREP团队进行交互，并且可能在将来根据从所有团队收集的数据编写汇总或元分析时再次进行交互。该项目在CREP模式的基础上进行了扩展，对选定的美国学生增加了每月两次与其他小组的分组会议，会议由研究生助理、CREP执行主任和/或上一年完成项目的同行导师监督。参与者将通过他们的导师招募参与研究，他们的导师将从Listservs和社交媒体中招募，并随机分配到CREP或标准（非CREP）研究项目班级。导师会告诉学生如何报名参加这项研究。预测试和后测试将通过Avila的系统使用调查软件在线进行。NSF IUSE:EHR计划支持研究和开发项目，以提高所有学生STEM教育的有效性。通过参与学生学习轨道，该计划支持有前途的实践和工具的创建，探索和实施。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This project aims to serve the national interest by implementing and evaluating the effectiveness of an enhanced Collaborative Replications and Education Project (CREP) model for undergraduate student research. The current version of CREP supports students with undergraduate research training through replicating published experiments. In this model, CREP selects recent psychological studies that could be replicated independently by students, and then organizes and helps instructors who want to supervise these projects as part of their courses. This project expands on the current CREP model by engaging selected students from across the United States in twice-monthly cohort meetings where they can present their work, as well as have opportunity to serve as peer mentors for future cohorts of students. Another goal of the project is to evaluate CREP as a tool for improving research skills, research literacy, critical thinking about psychology, and to provide a range of students with research experience. This project could impact psychology and other STEM disciplines by providing instructors with a model for involving students in authentic research within the context of their coursework. This project aims to evaluate the pedagogical effectiveness of an enhanced CREP model for undergraduate student research projects. The standard CREP project, outlined in Wagge and colleagues (2019), supports students and their instructors in the completion of direct replication projects as part of the undergraduate curriculum. In this project, the CREP team selects studies for students to choose from, and student teams complete replications of these studies at different institutions around the world. They interface with the CREP team when the projects are reviewed by CREP both before and after data collection, and potentially again in the future when a pooled or meta-analysis is written based on data collected from all teams. The project expands on the CREP model by adding -- for selected students in the United States -- twice-monthly cohort meetings with other teams under the supervision of a Graduate Assistant, CREP Executive Director, and/or peer mentors who completed projects the previous year. Participants will be recruited for the study through their instructors, who will be recruited from Listservs and social media to sign up to be randomly assigned to either a CREP or standard (non-CREP) research project class. Instructors will give students information about how to sign up to participate in the study. Pretests and posttests will be conducted online through Avila's system using survey software. The NSF IUSE:EHR Program supports research and development projects to improve the effectiveness of STEM education for all students. Through the Engaged Student Learning track, the program supports the creation, exploration, and implementation of promising practices and tools.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.