undergraduate research: not just a summer job! (presentation to stlhe 2014)
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Undergraduate Research:It’s Not Just a Summer Job
Connie Varnhagen
Consider definition(s) of undergraduate research and creative activities
Share examples of undergraduate research
Broaden definitions of undergraduate research
Become encouraged about engaging in undergraduate research
Goals of workshop
Phrases
Examples
What is undergraduate research?
An inquiry or investigation
conducted by an undergraduate student
that makes an original intellectual or creative contribution
to the discipline.
Council on Undergraduate Research definition
Healey & Jenkins (2009)
Ualberta modification
Learning about research
Learning methods of the discipline
Learning through inquiry
Discovering new knowledge and creating new works
Prepare informed citizens
Enhance the student experience
Enhance research
Invigorate teaching
Recruit graduate students
Benefits of undergraduate research
process centered product centered
student initiatedfaculty initiated
all studentshonors students
curriculum-based co-curricular
collaborativeindividual
original to student original to discipline
campus audienceprofessional audience
Dimensions of undergraduate research
process centered product centered
student initiatedfaculty initiated
all studentshonors students
curriculum-based co-curricular
collaborativeindividual
original to student original to discipline
campus audienceprofessional audience
Dimensions of undergraduate research
What is undergraduate research?
How (and why) might you include UGR in your classes?
Consider definition(s) of undergraduate research and creative activities
Share examples of undergraduate research
Broaden definitions of undergraduate research
Become encouraged about engaging in undergraduate research
Outcomes of workshop