Undergraduate Research Experiences for STEM Students
Successes, Challenges, and Opportunities
by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Division on Earth and Life Studies, Board on Life Sciences, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, Board on Science Education, Committee on Strengthening Research Experiences for Undergraduate STEM Students, Amy Stephens, Kerry Brenner, James Gentile
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Undergraduate research has a rich history, and many practicing researchers point to undergraduate research experiences (UREs) as crucial to their own career success. There are many ongoing efforts to improve undergraduate science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education that focus on increasing the active engagement of students and decreasing traditional lecture-based teaching, and UREs have been proposed as a solution to these efforts and may be a key strategy for broadening participation in STEM.
Undergraduate Research Experiences for STEM Students provides a comprehensive overview of and insights about the current and rapidly evolving types of UREs, in an effort to improve understanding of the complexity of UREs in terms of their content, their surrounding context, the diversity of the student participants, and the opportunities for learning provided by a research experience. This study analyzes UREs by considering them as part of a learning system that is shaped by forces related to national policy, institutional leadership, and departmental culture, as well as by the interactions among faculty, other mentors, and students.
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- Publisher National Academies Press
- Publication Date October 2017
- Orginal LanguageEnglish
- ISBN/Identifier 9780309452809 / 0309452805
- Publication Country or regionUnited States
- FormatPaperback
- Primary Price 64 USD
- Pages290
- ReadershipProfessional and scholarly
- Publish StatusPublished
- Copyright Year2017
- Dimensions9 X 6 inches
- Reference Code10.17226/24622
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