How well do undergraduate research programs promote engagement and success of students?

M Fechheimer, K Webber… - CBE—Life Sciences …, 2011 - Am Soc Cell Biol
Assessment of undergraduate research (UR) programs using participant surveys has
produced a wealth of information about design, implementation, and perceived benefits of …

Does involvement really matter? Indicators of college student success and satisfaction

KL Webber, RB Krylow, Q Zhang - Journal of College Student …, 2013 - muse.jhu.edu
Theories of involvement and quality of effort posit that student engagement in academic
activities is critical to success. College officials invest substantial resources in activities and …

Changing the culture of science education at research universities

WA Anderson, U Banerjee, CL Drennan, SCR Elgin… - Science, 2011 - science.org
Professors have two primary charges: generate new knowledge and educate students. The
reward systems at research universities heavily weight efforts of many professors toward …

The relationship between undergraduate research participation and subsequent research performance of early career STEM graduate students

J Gilmore, M Vieyra, B Timmerman… - The Journal of Higher …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Undergraduate research experiences have been adopted across higher education
institutions. However, most studies examining benefits derived from undergraduate research …

Student and faculty member engagement in undergraduate research

KL Webber, TF Nelson Laird… - Research in Higher …, 2013 - Springer
Undergraduate research (UR) is a valued co-curricular activity that has involved an
increasing number of students and faculty members in recent years. While there is a growing …

Faculty motivation to mentor students through undergraduate research programs: A study of enabling and constraining factors

DX Morales, SE Grineski, TW Collins - Research in Higher Education, 2017 - Springer
Undergraduate research experiences are a “high impact” educational practice that confer
benefits to students. However, little attention has been paid to understanding faculty …

Academic factors that affect undergraduate research experiences.

R Taraban, E Logue - Journal of educational psychology, 2012 - psycnet.apa.org
Undergraduate research experiences are considered an essential component in college
curricula, and there is an ideological push to provide these experiences to all students …

Undergraduate research and its impact on student success for underrepresented students

K O'Donnell, J Botelho, J Brown… - New Directions for …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
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Impact of virtual research experience for undergraduates experiences on students' psychosocial gains during the COVID-19 pandemic

D Zohrabi Alaee, MK Campbell, BM Zwickl - Physical Review Physics …, 2022 - APS
In the summer of 2020, due to COVID-19, institutions either canceled or remotely hosted
their research experience for undergraduates (REU) programs. We carried out a 16-week …

Effects of a research-based ecology lab course: a study of nonvolunteer achievement, self-confidence, and perception of lab course purpose

MJ Kloser, SE Brownell, RJ Shavelson… - Journal of College Science …, 2013 - JSTOR
Undergraduate biology lab courses have long been criticized for engaging students in"
cookbook" experiences in which students follow a given protocol to collect data that help …