A Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experience Improves Outcomes in Mentored Research.

ABSTRACT: Infusing undergraduate curricula with authentic research training is an important contemporary challenge. Such exposure typically occurs through mentored research (MR) or course-based undergraduate research experiences (CUREs). In Asian contexts, CURE implementation is rare, while MR is often a graduation requirement. In this study, mentor interviews and mentee focus groups were used to characterize the learning challenges associated with this requirement at a Chinese university. An intensive 6-week CURE was then implemented as an MR preparatory program to help mitigate the identified challenges. This program contained seven site-specific features not typically included in other CUREs, each designed to improve different aspects of student readiness for MR. Post-CURE surveys, focus groups,

SUBMITTER: Fendos J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9582824 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature