The Authors ix
Foreword xiii
Preface xvii
Acknowledgments xxiii
1 What Is Undergraduate Research, and Why Does It Matter? 1
2 What Is Known About the Student Outcomes of Undergraduate Research? 23
3 What Do Students Gain from Conducting Research? 41
4 Are the Gains from Research Unique? 67
5 What Are the Career and Longer-Term Impacts of Undergraduate Research? 89
6 How Do Minority Students Benefit from Research? 113
7 How Do Research Advisors Work with Students? 135
8 How Do Research Advisors Mentor, Advise, and Evaluate Students? 165
9 What Are the Costs and Benefits to Research Advisors? 179
10 Summary, Implications, and Issues for the Future 201
Appendix A: Interview Samples 221
Appendix B: Research Design and Methodology 227
Appendix C: Interview Protocols 235
Appendix D: Detailed Frequency Counts for 251
Observations of Student Gains References 259
Index 277
Sandra Laursen is a codirector and research associate for Ethnography & Evaluation Research (E&ER), part of the?Center to Advance Research and Teaching in the Social Sciences (CARTSS) at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
Anne-Barrie Hunter is lead analyst and project organizer for the undergraduate research (UR) study.?An?E&ER member since 1991, she played a major role in evaluations for the College Board, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and Project Kaleidoscope, and was recently the evaluator for several institutional UR programs. She is a member of the Council of Undergraduate Research Advisory Board on Assessment.
Elaine Seymour directed E&ER for 17 years. She coauthored a pioneering study, Talking About Leaving: Why undergraduates leave the sciences (1997), that helped to shape the national movement to reform undergraduate science education.
Heather Thiry has a PhD in education and has been the analyst of the comparative data sample for the UR study team.
Ginger Melton is a sociologist who was both analyst and consultant on minority issues for E&ER's qualitative study of the Significant Opportunities in Atmospheric Research and Science (SOARS) UR program for minority students at the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research.
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