Undergraduate Research Experiences Broaden Diversity in the Scientific Workforce
Undergraduate Research Experiences Broaden Diversity in the Scientific Workforce
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DOI：
10.1093/biosci/bix163
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发表时间：
2018-03-01
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影响因子：
10.1
通讯作者：
Schultz, P. Wesley
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作者：
Hernandez, Paul R.;Woodcock, Anna;Schultz, P. Wesley
新数据强调了本科生研究经历（URE）对于保持代表性不足的理科学生走上科学职业道路的重要性。我们采用了大规模、10年、纵向、多机构、倾向得分匹配的研究设计来比较参加URE(s)的学生与没有研究经验的类似学生的学业表现和对科学的坚持。我们的研究结果显示，在两个或两个以上的学期或暑假中每周完成 10 小时或以上由教师指导的课外研究的学生更有可能获得与科学相关的学士学位，被接受进入与科学相关的研究生培训计划，并在毕业 6 年后接受科学劳动力培训或在科学劳动力中工作。重要的是，研究结果表明，仅仅拥有 URE 并不足以影响科学的坚持；它要求每周投入 10 个小时或更多小时，在两个或两个以上学期进行教师指导的研究。
New data highlight the importance of undergraduate research experiences (UREs) for keeping underrepresented science students on the pathway to a scientific career. We used a large-scale, 10-year, longitudinal, multi-institutional, propensity-score-matched research design to compare the academic performance and persistence in science of students who participated in URE(s) with those of similar students who had no research experience. Our results showed that students who completed 10 or more hours of cocurricular, faculty-mentored research per week across two or more academic semesters or summers were significantly more likely to graduate with a science-related bachelor's degree, to be accepted into a science-related graduate training program, and to be training for or working in the scientific workforce 6 years after graduation. Importantly, the findings show that just having a URE was not enough to influence persistence in science; it required a commitment of 10 or more hours per week over two or more semesters of faculty-mentored research.