Merging Undergraduate Teaching, Graduate Training, and Producing Research: Lessons from Three Collaborative Experiments

Both undergraduate students and faculty members face a challenging job market that requires innovative approaches to skill development and research products. Moreover, entrenched approaches to research and education reinforce traditional hierarchies, exclusionary norms, and exploitative practices. This article describes a lab-based pedagogical framework designed to support faculty research goals and student learning and, simultaneously, to attenuate patterns of historical exclusion. This approach leverages evidence-based best practices from experiential education, team-based workflows, an understanding of servant leadership, and “whole-person”–style mentorship models. We find that these tools advance faculty research goals (in terms of both quality and productivity), support student learning in ways beyond traditional undergraduate coursework, and disrupt patterns of historical exclusion. We provide qualitative evidence to support our model and discuss the hurdles and challenges still to be overcome.

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“… 1. Similar approaches are gaining popularity in the social sciences (Becker 2020; Becker, Graham, and Zvobgo 2021; Bolsen et al 2019). …”

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The Lab as a Classroom: Advancing Faculty Research Through Undergraduate Experiential Education

Jensen

Bresee²,

Dreier

et al. 2023

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“…Prior research discusses the benefits that undergraduate students gain from participating in the peer-review process, including as a learning opportunity for quantitative and qualitative methods, leadership, academia, and research (Bolsen et al 2019; Garbati and Brockett 2018; Mariani et al 2013; Walker et al 2021). Cox and Kent (2018) described the student peer-review process as a way for student researchers to engage with the academic community, including fellow student researchers, and to understand the steps of the process as a peer reviewer and author.…”

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Choosing Reviewers: Predictors of Undergraduate Manuscript Evaluations

Walker

Towner

Hilliker

2022

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There is a substantial amount of research examining bias in the peer-review process and its influence on the quality and content of political science journal articles. However, there is limited research examining how students peer review other undergraduate research for publication. To better understand the predictors of manuscript evaluations and build on prior literature, this study examines seven years of undergraduate peer evaluations submitted to the Pi Sigma Alpha Undergraduate Journal of Politics from 2013 to 2020. Empirical analyses reveal that a peer reviewer’s prior service on the editorial board (i.e., experience) and race are consistently and significantly associated with manuscript evaluations. By examining how undergraduate peer reviewers assess anonymized manuscripts, this research reveals potential biases in the political science peer-review process. Additionally, the benefits of undergraduate students participating in the peer-review process are explored and discussed.

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“…rough typical, comprehensive, and advanced experimental projects and scientific research topics, graduate students are trained to master the fundamental processes and methods of scientific experiments so that students could experience the scientific research environment, familiarize themselves with scientific research equipment, integrate into the scientific research team, and participate in project activities [34,35]. Accordingly, all scientific research training should be problem-oriented to nurture students' skills for innovation and research for them to be able to conduct exploratory research by themselves.…”

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Complex Management Countermeasures of Postgraduate Education Quality Based on Comparison of International Training Models

Wan

Guo

2022

Complexity

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Graduate students are an important engine of national and regional development and the dominant force of contemporary scientific and technological innovation. It has become the historical mission of high-level research universities to provide strong talent support for the construction of innovative powerful countries with human resources. This investigation performed a systematic and comparative analysis of international postgraduate training models. The whole process of multidimensional training countermeasures and suggestions were proposed. Those specifically included updating the training concept, optimizing the curriculum structure, innovating teaching methods, strengthening practical training, strengthening the responsibility of the tutor, and expanding the international vision. After investigation and analysis, this research pointed out that the conditions of establishing and perfecting the examination system, evaluation mechanism, and incentive measures related to postgraduate education were guaranteed. Multiple measures to improve the quality of graduate students have certain reference significance for the current graduate education.

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Merging Undergraduate Teaching, Graduate Training, and Producing Research: Lessons from Three Collaborative Experiments

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The Lab as a Classroom: Advancing Faculty Research Through Undergraduate Experiential Education

The Lab as a Classroom: Advancing Faculty Research Through Undergraduate Experiential Education

Choosing Reviewers: Predictors of Undergraduate Manuscript Evaluations

Complex Management Countermeasures of Postgraduate Education Quality Based on Comparison of International Training Models

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