Affiliation:
1. Department of Physics and Astronomy, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah 84602, USA
Abstract
Efforts to mentor undergraduates in research require time, energy, and resources but can yield significant benefits. A review of education research on undergraduate research is presented followed by a case study of how technical and educational principles from the literature have been implemented and practiced in a new underwater acoustics lab. This case study involves the students who have joined this lab over its first three years. The results highlight the importance of several key factors that mentors can implement to improve their students' research experience. In order to meet the steep learning curve that new students face, faculty mentors should establish a culture of research (i.e., well established norms, expectations, and practices associated with being a part of a research group) through clear expectations, open communication, and student-led peer mentorship supported by carefully selected or designed resources (i.e., scaffolding). This paper seeks to share these education research resources with the acoustics community while providing a case study for review as a specific application of these key principles into an acoustics laboratory setting.
Publisher
Acoustical Society of America (ASA)
Subject
Acoustics and Ultrasonics,Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
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