Open AccessUndergraduate Research as System
Author(s) -
Laura Cruz,
Devon Anckle,
Lara D. LaDage,
Amy Chan Hilton,
Alan Rieck
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
the journal of scholarship of teaching and learning
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1527-9316
DOI - 10.14434/josotl.v21i1.30648
Subject(s) - participatory action research , undergraduate research , process (computing) , higher education , citizen journalism , visual research , value (mathematics) , public university , pedagogy , sociology , mathematics education , engineering ethics , psychology , political science , medical education , engineering , computer science , public administration , medicine , art , machine learning , anthropology , law , visual arts , operating system
This study examines the written and visual results of a participatory systems-mapping process used to explore undergraduate research at a large, public research university in the United States. With the university’s transition to a high-impact practice model, the institutional value of undergraduate research has increased, but challenges remain in implementing the practice equitably and inclusively, especially in the complex environment of higher education. The systems-mapping process reveals the subtle, often conflicting dynamics that underlie the undergraduate research enterprise, while simultaneously supporting the emergence of a shared vision, or story, of what the undergraduate research experience could be.