ERIC Number: EJ1268301
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2020
Pages: 9
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ISSN: ISSN-2476-101X
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Development of a Mentoring Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experience (M-CURE)
Dillon, Heather E.
Scholarship and Practice of Undergraduate Research, v3 n4 p26-34 Sum 2020
Undergraduate research has been shown to provide numerous benefits to students. In recent years an effort to scale the experience has led to development of course-based undergraduate research that often focuses on data collection or analysis. This article describes the design of a mentoring course-based undergraduate research experience (M-CURE) that focuses on the publication and career growth aspects of the research experience. A survey of students who completed the course indicated that they appreciated both the publication and mentoring facets of the course. The first three cohorts of the M-CURE course have resulted in 83 percent of students with a viable paper for publication. Eighty-one percent of the students indicated that they were extremely or somewhat likely to attend graduate programs in the next five years.
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Research, Mentors, Publishing Industry, Career Development, Courses, Engineering Education, Student Attitudes, Instructional Effectiveness, Curriculum Design, Course Content
Council on Undergraduate Research. 734 15th Street NW Suite 850, Washington, DC 20005. Tel: 202-783-4810; Fax: 202-783-4811; e-mail: cur@cur.org; e-mail: SPUR@cur.org; Web site: https://www.cur.org/what/publications/journals/spur/
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Oregon (Portland)
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