The Influences of Faculty on Undergraduate Student Participation in Research and Creative Activities
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The Influences of Faculty on Undergraduate Student Participation in Research and Creative Activities Shouping Hu & Kathyrine Scheuch & Joy Gaston Gayles
Published online: 13 March 2009 # Springer Science + Business Media, LLC 2009
Abstract Using data collected from surveys of college juniors and seniors and faculty members in related academic departments, this study examined whether faculty teaching and research orientations, as well as faculty external funding, had any impact on undergraduate student participation in research and creative activities. The results of the study indicated that faculty research orientation and external funding were indeed positively related to student participation in research activities. However, faculty members’ teaching orientation was not significant. Further analyses indicated that faculty teaching and research orientations had different impacts on a range of research and creative activities by undergraduate students. The findings from this study provide insight on ways of improving college teaching and learning as well as informing the development of institutional academic policies related to faculty and undergraduate education. Key words faculty–student contact . undergraduate research . teaching and learning
Shouping Hu is Associate Professor of Higher Education at Florida State University. He received his M.S. degree in Economics and Ph.D. in Higher Education from Indiana University. His research and scholarship focus on college access and success, student engagement, and higher education policy. Kathyrine Scheuch is the Deputy Director of Research and Evaluation in the Division of Community Colleges, Florida Department of Education. She received her Ed.D. in Higher Education from Florida State University. Her research interests include undergraduate research activities and minority student issues. Joy Gaston Gayles is Associate Professor of Higher Education at North Carolina State University. She received her Ph.D. in Higher Education from Ohio State University. Her research interests include the college student experience and its impact on student development and learning. S. Hu (*) Higher Education, Florida State University, 1210H Stone Building, Tallahassee, FL 32306, USA e-mail: [email protected] K. Scheuch Division of Community Colleges, Florida Department of Education, 325 West Gaines Street Suite 1344, Tallahassee, FL 32399, USA e-mail: [email protected] J. G. Gayles Higher Education, North Carolina State University, 300 D Poe Hall, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA e-mail: [email protected]
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Innov High Educ (2009) 34:173–183
Enhancing the quality of undergraduate education through research and creative activities (e.g., dance recitals, music compositions, and paintings) has recently garnered attention as an innovative approach to improving teaching and learning in higher education (Council on Undergraduate Research and National Conference for Undergraduate Research 2005; Hu et al. 2008). The momentum of this movement started with the release of the landmark rep
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