Undergraduate Research at Scale: What if the treatment is a CURE?
Start time
April 21, 2022 12:00 PM
End time
April 21, 2022 01:00 PM
Presented By
CLSE and CURE Institute
Location
Online
Workshop Worth
1
Description
Efforts to improve undergraduate STEM education have emphasized the importance of undergraduate research experiences. Course-based Undergraduate Research Experiences, or CUREs, involve groups of students in addressing research problems or questions in the context of a class, and have been proposed as scalable ways of involving undergraduates in research. This seminar will offer a definition of CUREs, describe what makes them distinctive from other learning experiences, and highlight results from a unique and highly impactful CURE model.
If you have an idea for a CURE and want to learn how to design and implement CUREs in the natural and social sciences consider applying to our 2-day intensive CURE Institute on June 21 and 22nd, 2022. Link to apply to the CURE Institute (link is external).
Objectives:
- Define a course-based undergraduate research experience (CUREs)
- Distinguish CUREs from undergraduate research internships
- Propose ideas for designing a study to test effects of CURE instruction on students’ graduation rates and completion of STEM majors
- Predict features of CUREs that may contribute to their effectiveness for students
- Examine data on distinctive features of CUREs that contribute to their effects on students’ career intentions
