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

通过复制团队科学与协作复制和教育项目进行本科研究培训

• 批准号: 2141930
• 负责人: Jordan Wagge
• 金额: $ 26.77万
• 依托单位: Avila University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-06-01 至 2025-05-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2141930&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Undergraduate; Research; Training; Through; Replication

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.

该项目旨在通过实施和评估增强的合作复制和教育项目（CREP）模型的有效性，为本科生研究服务的国家利益。目前版本的CREP通过复制已发表的实验来支持学生进行本科研究培训。 在这种模式下，CREP选择了最近的心理学研究，可以独立复制的学生，然后组织和帮助教师谁想要监督这些项目作为他们的课程的一部分。该项目扩展了目前的CREP模式，让来自美国各地的选定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，并有机会担任未来学生队列的同伴导师。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，心理学批判性思维的工具，并为一系列学生提供研究经验。该项目可以通过为教师提供一个模型来影响心理学和其他STEM学科，让学生在他们的课程背景下参与真实的研究。本研究旨在评估一个强化的CREP模式在本科生研究项目中的教学效果。在Wagge及其同事（2019）中概述的标准CREP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团队选择研究供学生选择，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在数据收集前后对项目进行审查时，他们与CREP团队进行沟通，并且在将来根据从所有团队收集的数据编写汇总或荟萃分析时，他们可能再次与CREP团队进行沟通。该项目扩大了CREP模式，为美国的选定学生增加了每月两次与其他团队的群组会议，由研究生助理、CREP执行主任和/或前一年完成项目的同侪导师监督。参与者将通过他们的导师招募，他们将从Listservs和社交媒体中招募，注册随机分配到CREP或标准（非CREP）研究项目类。教师将向学生提供有关如何报名参加研究的信息。前测和后测将通过阿维拉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。该奖项反映了NSF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。