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Jenny R. Zhu; Behnoosh Afghani – Cogent Education, 2024
To promote health equity, it is crucial to educate the next generation of healthcare workers about disparities early on during their education. We developed a virtual research program at a medical school in the United States of America with the goal of increasing the awareness of youth about the complexities of health inequities. The program was…
Descriptors: Mentors, Research Projects, Access to Health Care, Barriers
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Merlis P. Alvarez-Berrios; Gabriele Haynes – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2023
Although Hispanic population is growing rapidly, Latino students earn fewer STEM degrees than their peers. Therefore, it is mandatory to implement strategies that improve STEM retention and graduation rates for Hispanic students. There is little research about the ways in which multicampus collaborative CUREs combined with additional academic…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Puerto Ricans, Low Income Students, Program Implementation
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Poe, Mya; Zhang-Wu, Qianqian – Composition Forum, 2020
While Writing Studies scholars have embraced research on multilingualism, writing scholars have not developed program assessment methods that are informed by that scholarship. This profile describes a program assessment design that was informed by research on multilingualism, super-diversity, and consequential validity. This design included…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Multilingualism, Student Attitudes, Student Diversity
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Lisa Bosman; Esteban Soto; Jason Ostanek; Jose Garcia-Bravo; Sunghwan Lee; Walter Leon-Salas – Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, 2024
Purpose: The National Science Foundation (NSF) Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) programs are traditionally delivered in-person and full-time (40 h per week) for 10 weeks during the summer. However, this type of format has the potential to limit broader student participation. This study aims to compare learning assessment data between a…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Student Research, Undergraduate Students, Research Projects
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Blundo-Canto, Genowefa; Triomphe, Bernard; Faure, Guy; Barret, Danielle; de Romemont, Aurelle; Hainzelin, Etienne – Research Evaluation, 2019
Most agricultural research organizations strive to address societal challenges and contribute to positive societal impacts. Fulfilling this ambition involves embedding a culture of impact in organizational culture, which, in our view, entails three main elements: understanding the role of the research community in contributing to impacts over the…
Descriptors: Agriculture, Research Projects, Capacity Building, Research Design
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Robinson, Fiona; Piggot Irvine, Eileen; Youngs, Howard; Cady, Phil – Educational Action Research, 2019
The aim of this paper is to share the results of a global inquiry into the outcomes and impacts of action research (AR) projects. This is one of a series of papers associated with the Evaluative Study of Action Research (ESAR), an initiative launched by an international team of seven action researchers, to understand if the espoused intents…
Descriptors: Action Research, Research Projects, Program Evaluation, Evaluation Methods
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Erickson, Olivia A.; Cole, Rebecca B.; Isaacs, Jared M.; Alvarez-Clare, Silvia; Arnold, Jonathan; Augustus-Wallace, Allison; Ayoob, Joseph C.; Berkowitz, Alan; Branchaw, Janet; Burgio, Kevin R.; Cannon, Charles H.; Ceballos, Ruben Michael; Cohen, C. Sarah; Coller, Hilary; Disney, Jane; Doze, Van A.; Eggers, Margaret J.; Farina, Stacy; Ferguson, Edwin L.; Gray, Jeffrey J.; Greenberg, Jean T.; Hoffmann, Alexander; Jensen-Ryan, Danielle; Kao, Robert M.; Keene, Alex C.; Kowalko, Johanna E.; Lopez, Steven A.; Mathis, Camille; Minkara, Mona; Murren, Courtney J.; Ondrechen, Mary Jo; Ordoñez, Patricia; Osano, Anne; Padilla-Crespo, Elizabeth; Palchoudhury, Soubantika; Qin, Hong; Ramírez-Lugo, Juan; Reithel, Jennifer; Shaw, Colin A.; Smith, Amber; Smith, Rosemary; Summers, Adam P.; Tsien, Fern; Dolan, Erin L. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic shut down undergraduate research programs across the United States. A group of 23 colleges, universities, and research institutes hosted remote undergraduate research programs in the life sciences during Summer 2020. Given the unprecedented offering of remote programs, we carried out a study to describe and evaluate them.…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Distance Education, Undergraduate Students
Mengli Song; Dana Shaat; Andrew J. Wayne; Cheryl Graczewski – American Institutes for Research, 2024
The purpose of the addendum is to document the findings from the Year 2 student achievement analyses of a teacher-level randomized experiment, which was designed to examine the implementation and impact of a scalable version of the 2-year MyTeachingPartner Secondary (MTP-S) program as part of a federally-funded Education Innovation and Research…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Program Effectiveness, Federal Aid, Program Implementation
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Jianjun Wang – Grantee Submission, 2025
California State University, Bakersfield (CSUB) is completing the fourth year of its five-year grant, "An Equitable Pathway to In-Demand STEM Careers," launched in Fall 2021 to strengthen STEM degree completion and career readiness for Hispanic/Latinx and low-income students. Year 4 demonstrated continued expansion of pathway supports…
Descriptors: Demand Occupations, STEM Careers, Student Participation, State Universities
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Chhin, Christina S.; Taylor, Katherine A.; Wei, Wendy S. – Educational Researcher, 2018
Despite the important role that replication studies play in building scientific evidence, recent reports show that few replications have been conducted in education. The goal of the current study was to examine how many efficacy and effectiveness research grants funded by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) were replications, what types of…
Descriptors: Replication (Evaluation), Educational Research, Special Education, Grants
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Gueorguieva, Petia; Ghosh, Sayantani; Martini, Ashlie; Lu, Jennifer – Journal of STEM Education: Innovations and Research, 2020
With support from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the Merced Anomaterials Center for Energy and Sensing (MACES) was launched in the summer of 2015 at the University of California Merced (UC Merced). MACES is a research and education center, focused on creating innovative materials-enabled solutions for energy and…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Research, Fellowships, Aerospace Education
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Werner-Fraczek, Joanna – Scholarship and Practice of Undergraduate Research, 2020
Moreno Valley College, a two-year community college in Southern California, experiences an annual migration of cliff swallows. The presence of these birds inspired the development of the undergraduate research program Flying with Swallows. The assessment of the project indicated significant increases in qualitative student outcomes such as…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Undergraduate Students, Student Research, Ornithology
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Amon, Emily; Hill, Stephen; Blake, Jim; Gage, Marie – Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, 2020
We evaluate how the U-Links Centre for Community-Based Research (U-Links), a nonprofit organization that brokers research for community-based organizations with postsecondary institutions in Haliburton County, Ontario, has impacted this rural region of Ontario. Our approach uses contribution analysis and realist evaluation as layered tactics…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Program Effectiveness, Rural Areas, Community Organizations
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Brennan, Aimie – Education Research and Perspectives, 2019
This paper introduces an innovative project in teacher education, designed to enhance student teachers' engagement with educational research methods by creating in a peer-learning network. The Student Teacher Educational Research (STER) project was established by the author in partnership with a group of student volunteers in 2017. The project…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Teachers, Student Research, Educational Research
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Downes, Amia; Novicki, Emily; Howard, John – American Journal of Evaluation, 2019
Interest from Congress, executive branch leadership, and various other stakeholders for greater accountability in government continues to gain momentum today with government-wide efforts. However, measuring the impact of research programs has proven particularly difficult. Cause and effect linkages between research findings and changes to…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Evaluators, Research Projects, Outcome Measures
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