Undergraduate Researcher Personas
Abstract
Personalized undergraduate research programs can help increase undergraduate students' participation in research. Personas of undergraduate researchers are a powerful means of encapsulating the richness of students' various goals, motivations, and experiences in research. Student personas can support the design of research programs with student-centered approaches that better engage undergraduate students across multiple disciplines. We used interview data and drew on Self-Determination Theory to identify students' various goals and motivations in order to build three undergraduate researcher personas in physics.
- Publication:
-
arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- February 2020
- DOI:
- 10.48550/arXiv.2003.00364
- arXiv:
- arXiv:2003.00364
- Bibcode:
- 2020arXiv200300364H
- Keywords:
-
- Physics - Physics Education
- E-Print:
- Submitted to ICLS 2020