Integrating discovery-based research into the undergraduate curriculum : report of a convocation / National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (U.S.).

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (U.S.), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

College teaching--Research.

College teaching.

Education, Higher--Aims and objectives.

Education, Higher.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (152 p.)

Place of Publication:

Washington, District of Columbia : The National Academies Press, 2015.

Summary:

Students who participate in scientific research as undergraduates report gaining many benefits from the experience. However, undergraduate research done independently under a faculty member's guidance or as part of an internship, regardless of its individual benefits, is inherently limited in its overall impact. Faculty members and sponsoring companies have limited time and funding to support undergraduate researchers, and most institutions have available (or have allocated) only enough human and financial resources to involve a small fraction of their undergraduates in such experiences. Many more students can be involved as undergraduate researchers if they do scientific research either collectively or individually as part of a regularly scheduled course. Course-based research experiences have been shown to provide students with many of the same benefits acquired from a mentored summer research experience, assuming that sufficient class time is invested, and several different potential advantages. In order to further explore this issue, the Division on Earth and Life Studies and the Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education organized a convocation meant to examine the efficacy of engaging large numbers of undergraduate students who are enrolled in traditional academic year courses in the life and related sciences in original research, civic engagement around scientific issues, and/or intensive study of research methods and scientific publications at both two- and four-year colleges and universities. Participants explored the benefits and costs of offering students such experiences and the ways that such efforts may both influence and be influenced by issues such as institutional governance, available resources, and professional expectations of faculty. Integrating Discovery-Based Research into the Undergraduate Curriculum summarizes the presentations and discussions from this event.

Contents:

FrontMatter; Preface; Acknowledgments; Contents; 1 Introduction and Overview of the Convocation; 2 Historical Context for Course-Based Research: The Need for Improved Science Education; 3 Promising Practices and Ongoing Challenges; 4 Leveraging Available Resources to Create Greater Access to Research Opportunities; 5 Rewards and Challenges of Scaling Up; 6 Institutional Strategies and Funding Structures; 7 Observations from Convocation Participants; References; Appendix A: Convocation Agenda; Appendix B: Commissioned Paper: The Consortium as Experiment; Appendix C: Participant List

Appendix D: Biographical Sketches of Organizing Committee Members and Workshop Speakers

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF cover (ebrary, viewed March 18, 2016).

ISBN:

9780309380928

0309380928

9780309380904

0309380901