Mentoring Psychology Research Experiences through Replication with the Collaborative Replication and Education Project

本项目旨在通过使用直接复制作为学习工具来改善心理学本科生的研究训练，从而为国家利益服务。该项目将通过一系列虚拟暑期研讨会来实现这一目标，心理学讲师将学习如何通过让学生从头到尾完成自己的研究来教学生进行研究。该系列研讨会将向教师介绍协作复制和教育项目（CREP），该组织鼓励教师让学生在其课程中进行这些复制研究，从而支持直接复制已发表的作品。重复性是优秀科学的标志，通过教育支持重复性的工作是美国国家科学基金会的优先事项。此外，该领域受益于已发表作品的直接复制，学生是进行直接复制的优秀候选人，正如最近呼吁学生为他们的项目和论文从事这项工作所证明的那样（Quintana, 2021）。拟议的讲习班将采用现有的学生复制系统，即CREP，并为教师提供时间和支持，以开发教材和准备他们的课程，以使用这种方法。这一系列针对本科心理学教师的研讨会将于2023年夏季举行，最多可容纳14名参与者。研讨会将介绍CREP并演示如何在课程背景下使用它，然后提供资源支持教师教学生如何编写与多样性、公平、包容和获取相关的有意义的扩展假设。在该系列课程中，辅导员将与教师单独会面，以帮助每位教师为其特定机构和学生量身定制工作。参与者将为CREP项目的教学手册做出贡献，并在研讨会系列之后，还将受邀为该手册的相关手稿以及他们在CREP教学中的经验做出贡献。教学材料和精选的工作坊录音将提供给其他教师。因此，这个项目不仅会影响这14名教师和他们的学生，还会影响未来有兴趣采用这些项目的任何其他教师。NSF IUSE: EDU项目支持研究和开发项目，以提高所有学生STEM教育的有效性。通过其参与学生学习轨道，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 improving undergraduate research training in psychology through the use of direct replication as a learning tool. The project will accomplish this through a series of virtual summer workshops for psychology instructors who will learn how to teach students to conduct research by having students complete their own study from start to finish. The workshop series would introduce instructors to the Collaborative Replication and Education Project (CREP), a group that supports direct replication of published work by encouraging instructors to have students conduct these replication studies in their courses. Replication is a hallmark of good science, and work that supports replication through education is a priority for the National Science Foundation. Additionally, the field benefits from direct replication of published work and students are excellent candidates to carry out direct replication, as demonstrated by recent calls for students to engage in this work for their projects and theses (Quintana, 2021). The proposed workshops will take an existing system for student replications, CREP, and provide instructors time and support in developing teaching materials and preparing their courses to use this approach. This series of workshops for undergraduate psychology faculty will be held virtually in Summer 2023 and will be delivered to up to 14 participants. The workshops will introduce CREP and demonstrate how it can be used in the context of courses, and then provide resources to support instructors in teaching students how to write meaningful extension hypotheses related to diversity, equity, inclusion, and access. During the series, the facilitators will meet with instructors individually to assist in tailoring each instructor’s work to their specific institution and students. Participants will contribute to a teaching manual for CREP projects and, following the workshop series, will also be invited to contribute to a manuscript related to this manual and their experiences teaching with CREP. Teaching materials and select workshop recordings will be available for other instructors. This project will therefore not only impact these 14 instructors and their students, but also any other instructor who is interested in adopting these projects in the future. The NSF IUSE: EDU Program supports research and development projects to improve the effectiveness of STEM education for all students. Through its 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.