Abstract
Engaging students in research is a high impact practice that improves student retention and persistence in behavioral and biomedical sciences and engineering. The California State University Long Beach (CSULB) Building Infrastructure Leading to Diversity (BUILD) Program offers an intensive research training experience to undergraduate students from a wide range of health-related disciplines. The goal of this program is to provide students with research skills, psychosocial resources, and graduate school application guidance that will make them competitive for Ph.D. programs. With the COVID-19 pandemic forcing the campus closure of many universities, including CSULB, our student training had to transition from in-person training to online training. This paper discusses the development and implementation of a series of eight online modules for guiding students through the application process for summer research experiences and graduate schools. Overall, the BUILD trainees were positive about the online modules. Specifically, they indicated that the modules were useful, informative, easy to access/use, good use of their time, and a good supplemental activity to their learning community activities. Most trainees indicated that they preferred the modules to be implemented in a hybrid format, where the students can view the modules on their own first and then have an opportunity to engage in in-person/synchronous online discussions.
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This comment was from a trainee in the 2019 Scholars 1, Pilot cohort. This cohort received in-person instruction on the topics that were covered in some of the modules.
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We thank the SMEs and CSULB’s ATS department and their instructional designers for their work creating the online modules. We also thank the BUILD training directors, staff, graduate mentors, and student trainees who help implement or use the online modules as part of the BUILD training curriculum. Last but not least, we thank the Center for Evaluation and Educational Effectiveness (CEEE) and Dr. Nada Rayyes, the BUILD Program Evaluator for their evaluation work.
This work was supported by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health under Award Numbers UL1GM118979, TL4GM118980, and RL5GM118978. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.
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Vu, KP.L., Chun, CA., Chin Goosby, K., Cho, YH., Dillon, J., Marayong, P. (2021). Preparing Undergraduate Students for Summer Research Experiences and Graduate School Applications in a Pandemic Environment: Development and Implementation of Online Modules. In: Yamamoto, S., Mori, H. (eds) Human Interface and the Management of Information. Information-Rich and Intelligent Environments. HCII 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12766. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78361-7_13
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