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Showing 1 to 20 of 66 for “"research experience"”.
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Undergraduate Research Experience Programs in Natural Resources, 2012-2016
Undergraduate research education occurs in a variety of formats including co-curricular, summer internship, and course-based formats. Research on such programs historically focuses on undergraduate outcomes particularly in STEM disciplines. Situated learning theories such as cognitive …
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EXPLORING STUDENT EXPERIENCES ACROSS A LINKED SEQUENCE COURSE-BASED UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
… the effect a linked Course-based Undergraduate Research Experience (CURE) has on a students' understanding of research and the associated experiences they encountered. CUREs offer an alternative path to authentic research which can increase student access and potentially increase the overall …
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The impact of a mathematics research experience on teachers' conceptions of student learning
… or been organized around a goal of providing "research-like" (Cuoco, 2001) experiences. That is, teachers participate in a project that somehow simulates the mathematics research process. Though some research studies have shown positive outcomes from such programs, researchers have cautioned …
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A Multilevel Analysis to Examine Interdisciplinary Research Experience Among Doctoral Graduates and Its Effect on Career Outcomes
… to explore the impact of interdisciplinary research on the likelihood of a doctoral student obtaining a faculty job upon degree completion. Additionally, this study examined the important individual and institutional components of socialization that contribute to differences in career …
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Incidents in the Undergraduate Research Experience that Contribute to an Interest in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM)
… 2008; Laursen et al., 2010). Student-faculty research, such as is done during an undergraduate research experience (URE), has been shown to be a high impact activity leading to greater student interest in STEM careers. A closer look is needed to get an idea of what types of experiences during …
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Surveillance and monitoring of amphibian pathogens and evaluating the impacts of an associated Course-based Undergraduate Research Experience (CURE)
… in the form of a course-based undergraduate research experience (CURE). Chapter 1 of my thesis used Roger's Diffusion of Innovations framework to evaluate cognitive and affective outcomes in a CURE taught by early adopters across nine North American academic institutions. Chapter 2 of my …
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Advancing Scholarship in Wartime: The World War I Research Experience and Its Impact on American Higher Education, 1900-1925
… particularly a well-articulated but undeveloped research-service ideal, to stimulate a strong devotion to research and service among American universities; how this commitment came to dominate these institutions during and after the conflict; and how this affected their role in society in and …
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Exploring the Effectiveness of Embedding a Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experience in a Science Content Course for Pre-Service Elementary Teachers
… teacher education programs with little prior research experience and mixed confidence in doing science, which may influence whether and how they later teach it. Course-based Undergraduate Research Experiences (CUREs) offer one way to embed authentic research within existing coursework, yet …
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Early-year undergraduate research experiences: How students are mentored, how valuable they find this experience, and what kinds of costs they associate with it
<p>Undergraduate research has been considered as a high impact practice. Engaging in research in early college years are crucial to attracting and retaining students in research-related STEM careers. However, undergraduate research literature mostly focuses on the research experiences of students …
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Postgraduate Student Success: A Case Study of the South African Military Academy
… success allows HEIs to not only improve the research experience of the postgraduate students, but also improve the research output and student throughput rates of the institution. Researchers assert that it is important to explore the research experience of postgraduate students to improve …
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Related scientific information: a study on user-defined relevance.
… The main motivation is to observe if researchers, in the context of knowledge discovery, use different criteria to judge the relevance of the information presented. Additionally, the effects that discipline and research experience background may have on these manifestations are …
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Investigating the Relationships between Seventh and Eighth Grade Science Teachers' Background, Self-efficacy toward Teaching Science as Inquiry, and Attitudes and Beliefs on Classroom Control
… control were important features in framing the research questions for this study.<p> Packets containing a teacher background survey, the Teaching Science as Inquiry (TSI) instrument and the Attitudes and Beliefs towards Classroom Control - Revised (ABCC-R) instrument were mailed to 303 science …
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Investigating the Relationships between Seventh and Eighth Grade Science Teachers' Background, Self-efficacy toward Teaching Science as Inquiry, and Attitudes and Beliefs on Classroom Control
… control were important features in framing the research questions for this study.<p> Packets containing a teacher background survey, the Teaching Science as Inquiry (TSI) instrument and the Attitudes and Beliefs towards Classroom Control - Revised (ABCC-R) instrument were mailed to 303 science …
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Leaders and their learnings: What and how leaders learn as they transform organizations
… paradigm, was guided by the following research question: When leaders undertake the task of organizational transformation, what can be discovered about what they learn and the process of how they learn? The leaders learned about themselves and about how to transform their organizations. …
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Performance practice in Hungarian folk music and its relationship to the Style Hongrois
… undertaken as part of a practice-based immersive research experience, and comparisons with the style hongrois made via analysis of scores and recordings of Jeno Hubay (1858-1937). The research strives towards an ‘Historically Informed Performance’ specific to these styles, and explores how they …
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The investment in white benevolence in a small Karoo town
… of work also attempts to illustrate how lived experience and the situatedness of subjectivity impact on the research experience and the subjectivity of the 'researcher.' Ultimately, it is posited that if we are interested in the nature and extent of social transformation, the question of …
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Developing A Clinical Support Tool of Suboptimal Caregiver Behaviours During Vaccination: Preliminary Validation of the Opportunities to Understand Childhood Hurt Inoculation (OUCHI) Tool
… developed and validated by synergizing extensive research experience in vaccination behaviours, clinician expertise in everyday practice, and archival vaccination data (n = 537). Our findings showed interrater reliability, test-retest reliability, and ecological, content, face, convergent, and …
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Problem solving and computer-assisted instruction in science education : analysis of research findings and the research process /
… to this relationship. I had the dual role of researcher and teacher, as I conducted the study with 84 grade seven students to whom I simultaneously taught science on a rotary-basis. A two-treatment research design using this sample of convenience allowed for a comparison between the …
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Social impact assessment monitoring the Huntly monitoring project in retrospect
… issues and criticisms arising from that research experience, as well as describing its research method and results. Criticisms of the application of Positivism to Social Science published during the six years of the HMP provide a framework for an SIA Monitoring critique. Alternative …
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Comparing Library of Congress subject headings to keyword searches involving LGBT topics: a pilot study
… access to that information. However, due to the research experience of the research participants, this discrepancy in language does not keep them from successfully performing research on these topics. More research is needed in order to determine a larger statistical sample, as well as to develop …
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