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Evaluating the Undergraduate Research Experience - A Guide for Program Directors and Principal Investigators (Paperback, New)
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Evaluating the Undergraduate Research Experience - A Guide for Program Directors and Principal Investigators (Paperback, New)
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The current movement toward more and better research experiences
for undergraduates has spread across disciplines in the arts,
humanities, science, mathematics, and engineering beyond the
"research university" to the full range of post-secondary
institutions of higher education. Along with this spread of
practice is the need to take stock of the programs and make use of
evaluation to inform program improvement and to communicate an
understanding of the worth of the program to funders, institutional
administrators, faculty/mentors, and students. The main aim of the
book is to provide a practical guide for planning an evaluation of
an undergraduate experience program. The intent is to enable a
program director to plan with a team consisting of an internal
evaluator and program staff, a systematic and rigorous study of the
program (processes, products, organizational dynamics, etc.)
including the gathering and analysis of information that is
context-sensitive, and connected to an argument and justification
for descriptive, causal, and practice-useful claims. It is useful
for a program director to contract with an evaluator. It is
specific to the field of undergraduate research experience while
being useful for other fields. It places strong emphasis on how to
find and specify evaluation questions that yield information that
has high leverage for program improvement and demonstrating the
effectiveness and worth of the program. A measure of attitude
toward evaluation allows you to reflect on your leanings evaluation
orientations such as formative/summative, process/product,
preordinate goals/emergent goals, and other characteristics of
approaches to and confidence in evaluation. The main readership is
targeted to directors and developers of undergraduate research
experience programs. While the examples are mainly in the
undergraduate research experience, it will be found useful for
instructors of courses in project evaluation and beginning level
evaluators. The usefulness of the book is enhanced by a checklist
in the final chapter that integrates the approaches from throughout
the book referencing the earlier discussions.
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