Browsing by Subject "Undergraduates"

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    An Annotated Bibliography of Faculty Mentoring of Undergraduate Research
    (Council on Undergraduate Research, 2005-12) Stamatoplos, Anthony C., 1958-
    This annotated bibliography is a guide to literature on faculty mentoring of independent undergraduate research. It consists of 30 entries, each with a descriptive annotation focusing on the publication’s potential use to researchers, practitioners, and program administrators. Five prefatory paragraphs summarize the literature.
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    Collaborative Repurposing of Existing Technology to Enhance Student-Directed Research
    (2012-11-08) Palmer, Kristi L.; Stamatoplos, Anthony C., 1958-
    An educational team comprising instructor, subject librarian, and digital librarian collaborated to repurpose a digital collection content management system as a tool that solved a multitiered data-collection and analysis problem, enhanced student understanding of ethnographic data collection and description, and provided a means for openly distributing the final product of a community-rooted research project.
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    Expensive Egos: Narcissistic Males Have Higher Cortisol
    (PLOS, 2012-01-23) Reinhard, David A.; Konrath, Sara H.; Lopez, William D.; Cameron, Heather G.
    Background Narcissism is characterized by grandiosity, low empathy, and entitlement. There has been limited research regarding the hormonal correlates of narcissism, despite the potential health implications. This study examined the role of participant narcissism and sex on basal cortisol concentrations in an undergraduate population. Methods and Findings Participants were 106 undergraduate students (79 females, 27 males, mean age 20.1 years) from one Midwestern and one Southwestern American university. Narcissism was assessed using the Narcissistic Personality Inventory, and basal cortisol concentrations were collected from saliva samples in a laboratory setting. Regression analyses examined the effect of narcissism and sex on cortisol (log). There were no sex differences in basal cortisol, F (1,97) = .20, p  = .65, and narcissism scores, F (1,97) = .00, p  = .99. Stepwise linear regression models of sex and narcissism and their interaction predicting cortisol concentrations showed no main effects when including covariates, but a significant interaction, β = .27, p = .04. Narcissism was not related to cortisol in females, but significantly predicted cortisol in males. Examining the effect of unhealthy versus healthy narcissism on cortisol found that unhealthy narcissism was marginally related to cortisol in females, β = .27, p = .06, but significantly predicted higher basal cortisol in males, β = .72, p = .01, even when controlling for potential confounds. No relationship was found between sex, narcissism, or their interaction on self-reported stress. Conclusions Our findings suggest that the HPA axis is chronically activated in males with unhealthy narcissism. This constant activation of the HPA axis may have important health implications.
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    Focus group research in the academic library: An overview of the methodology
    (Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries (QQML); http://www.qqml.net/March_2013_issue.html, 2013-03) Weare, William H., Jr.
    Through the use of focus groups, academic librarians can discover what students really think, feel, need, and want. Equipped with this knowledge, librarians will be better positioned to design and deliver effective programs, improve services, and shape the development of facilities to better meet the needs of current and future users. Concerned about the efficacy of various library programs and initiatives at Valparaiso University (Valparaiso, Indiana, USA), two public services librarians conducted a series of focus groups with undergraduate students to gain a better understanding of their perceptions of the library. This paper provides an overview of the focus group methodology employed in this study.
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    Social Work Theory and Application to Practice: The Students' Perspectives
    (North American Business Press, Inc., 2014-03) Gentle-Genitty, Carolyn; Chen, Haiping; Karikari, Isaac; Barnett, Crystal
    We believe the success of applying theory in practice is largely contingent on how students define social work theory, identify the role of theory in practice, and categorize benefits and challenges in applying theory to practice. It is on this premise that this article is presented. Two datasets were used to form the students' perspectives. The first dataset is a seven year compilation of 109 undergraduate student theory papers and the second is a pre-test/post-test online survey of graduate students in an advanced social work theory course. The work offers a context for educators in teaching and helping students to apply theory in their own practices.
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    Targeting Undergraduates in Library Diversity Initiatives
    (2008-10-03) Hollingsworth, Jaena; Palmer, Kristi L.
    While many libraries actively recruit graduate and post-graduate library science students, IUPUI University Library’s diversity recruitment program focuses on an undergraduate audience who might not have otherwise considered librarianship as a profession. The fellowship’s rewards are threefold: It allows the library to immediately increase diversity among its student staff; the fellows’ projects purposefully create a more welcoming atmosphere within the library; and it introduces a variety
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    Using Electronic Portfolios to Measure Student Gains from Mentored Research
    (Council on Undergraduate Research, 2009-03) Wilson, Kathryn; Crowe, Mary; Singh, Jacqueline; Stamatoplos, Anthony; Rubens, Elizabeth; Gosney, John; Dimaculangan, Dwight; Levy, Foster; Zrull, Mark; Pyles, Rebecca
    This article reports on the development and implementation of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Electronic Portfolio (ePortfolio) Project. The goal of the NSF ePortfolio Project was to develop an objective, evidence-based approach to measuring student learning as the result participating in a mentored research experience. The project developed an undergraduate research assessment instrument, the NSF Electronic Rubric, to examine student research products before and after a research experience. That tool is embedded in a learning portfolio, which was constructed to gather evidence of student skills as measured against a set of learning outcomes. The article discusses the rationale for the ePortfolio project and development of the rubric and evaluation tool.
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    Who is Citing Undergraduate Theses in Institutional Digital Repositories?: Implications for Scholarship and Information Literacy
    (2014) Stone, Sean M.; Lowe, M. Sara
    Undergraduate theses are available through open access institutional repositories. Is undergraduate work being integrated into the larger body of academic research, and, if so, how? Institutional repositories containing undergraduate theses were selected and titles were searched using the forward citation feature in Google Scholar to determine if and where undergraduate scholarship is being cited. Results show that 24% of citations to senior theses were in peer-reviewed or refereed journals, and 33% in dissertations and theses. This paper addresses citation source and the potential value of undergraduate scholarship as well as the implications for information literacy instruction to senior thesis students.