During this panel discussion, faculty from humanities, social sciences, and psychology/psychiatry share their experiences integrating individual and team research projects into undergraduate courses. This discussion emphasizes strategies for engaging students in research and project-based learning in both remote and face-to-face learning environments. The workshop was held on February 8, 2021 and was co-sponsored by UCLA's Undergraduate Research Center for the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences and the Center for the Advancement of Teaching.
PANELISTS:
Maylei Blackwell, Chicana/o & Central American Studies and Gender Studies
Andrew Fuligni, Psychology and Psychiatry
Lowell Gallagher, English
Muriel McClendon, History
Center for the Advancement of Teaching: consult@teaching.ucla.edu or online consultation request form
Undergraduate Research Center - Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences: urhass@college.ucla.edu
UCLA Library: Support for Instructors
The UCLA Library's Writing Instruction and Research Education initiative (WI+RE) offers a wide range of tools to help scaffold the research and writing process for students. Check out this workshop recording and website walkthrough video for tips about incorporating WI+RE tools into your courses.
This website from Carnegie Mellon offers great sample rubrics for all sorts of projects, and this page of their site focuses specifically on strategies for managing and assessing group projects--including sample work plans, peer and self evaluation tools, and more.
CCLE offers advanced grading options that allow instructors to incorporate rubrics.
CCLE's Group Choice tool can help instructors manage student groups and link groups with graded and ungraded activities in CCLE, including assignments and discussion forums.
The Association of American Colleges & Universities identifies course-based research and project-based learning as high-impact teaching practices. These pedagogies have been widely studied and shown to benefit college students at all levels and from a wide range of backgrounds. We invite you to explore some of the resource hubs and research studies that document the benefits of research and project-based learning below.
Council on Undergraduate Research Mentor Resources -- includes an assessment toolkit, a bibliography on best practices for course-based research, and more!
Peer Review special issue on undergraduate research (across disciplines)
The Craft of Research (an accessible guide for both instructors and students)