TY - GEN
T1 - Scaling and Adapting a Program for Early Undergraduate Research in Computing
AU - Alvarado, Christine
AU - Hummel, Joe
AU - Mirza, DIba
AU - Revelo, Renata
AU - Yan, Lisa
N1 - Funding Information:
We would like to thank the ERSP participants for agreeing to allowing their experiences to be studied. We would also like to thank all those who have helped us run ERSP over the years, and Burçin Tamer who has helped us evaluate the program. This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Collaborative Grant Nos. 1821521, 1821415, 1821449, 1821501.
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PY - 2022/2/22
Y1 - 2022/2/22
N2 - The Early Research Scholars Program (ERSP) was launched in 2014 at UC San Diego as a way to provide the benefits of research experiences to a large and diverse group of students early in their undergraduate computing career. ERSP is a structured program in which second-year undergraduate computing majors participate in a group-based, dual-mentored research apprenticeship over a full academic year. In its first four years ERSP engaged 139 students with a high proportion of women (68%) and racially minoritized students (19%), and participation in ERSP correlated with increased class grades. In 2018 we partnered with three additional universities to launch their own version of ERSP. Implementations at our partner sites have seen similar diversity and initial success, and have taught us how to implement the program in different contexts (e.g. quarters vs. semesters, different credit structures). This paper describes the structure of ERSP and how it can be adapted to different contexts to construct a scalable and inclusive research experience for early-career undergraduates in computing and related fields.
AB - The Early Research Scholars Program (ERSP) was launched in 2014 at UC San Diego as a way to provide the benefits of research experiences to a large and diverse group of students early in their undergraduate computing career. ERSP is a structured program in which second-year undergraduate computing majors participate in a group-based, dual-mentored research apprenticeship over a full academic year. In its first four years ERSP engaged 139 students with a high proportion of women (68%) and racially minoritized students (19%), and participation in ERSP correlated with increased class grades. In 2018 we partnered with three additional universities to launch their own version of ERSP. Implementations at our partner sites have seen similar diversity and initial success, and have taught us how to implement the program in different contexts (e.g. quarters vs. semesters, different credit structures). This paper describes the structure of ERSP and how it can be adapted to different contexts to construct a scalable and inclusive research experience for early-career undergraduates in computing and related fields.
KW - computing
KW - diversity
KW - early undergraduates
KW - scaling research
KW - undergraduate research
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U2 - 10.1145/3478431.3499336
DO - 10.1145/3478431.3499336
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85126110750
T3 - SIGCSE 2022 - Proceedings of the 53rd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education
SP - 50
EP - 56
BT - SIGCSE 2022 - Proceedings of the 53rd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education
PB - Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
T2 - 53rd Annual ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, SIGCSE 2022
Y2 - 3 March 2022 through 5 March 2022
ER -