BRIGE: Investigating Best Practices in the Research Mentoring of Underrepresented Minority Students in Engineering

这项布里奇工程教育研究项目将调查对代表性不足的少数民族学生的研究辅导。它将建立最佳实践，并结合定性和定量数据和方法确定学生对这些实践有效性的看法。将使用对关键事件的叙述性分析、结构化访谈和调查问题。目前关于指导最佳做法的确切经验信息很少，这项工作的结果可能支持或质疑目前接受的指导和研究监督方法。研究结果将提供新的数据和知识，极大地促进对代表不足的少数群体的有效研究指导做法的理解。这些信息在设计和实施辅导计划时非常有价值，这些计划的重点是扩大STEM领域中代表性不足学生的参与范围，提高他们的成就率和留存率。

This BRIGE engineering education research project will investigate research mentoring of underrepresented minority students. It will establish best practices and determine the students' perceptions of the effectiveness of these practices with a combination of qualitative and quantitative data and methods. Narrative analysis of critical incidents, structured interviews, and survey questions will be used. Currently there is very little definitive empirical information on mentoring best practices, and the results of this work could support or dispute currently accepted methods of mentoring and research supervision. The results will provide new data and knowledge that will significantly advance understanding of effective research mentoring practices for underrepresented minority populations. This information can be of great value in the design and implementation of mentoring programs focused on broadening participation and improving success and retention of underrepresented student in STEM fields.