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Taller modelo ARG
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El jueves, 8 de enero de 2009 se ofrecerá un taller sobre el modelo ARG para investigación subgraduada. El mismo estará a cargo de la Dra. Ann Gates y tendrá lugar 8:00 a.m. a 5:00 p.m., en la Sala Eugene Francis del edificio de Física.
El modelo ARG ha sido ampliamente utilizado en diversos lugares con éxito. El taller iniciará con una presentación del Dr. Efrain O'Neill sobre investigación subgraduada y luego la Dra. Gates y Catherine Oleksiw discutirán el modelo ARG.
Los participantes recibirán 8 créditos de capacitación del CEP y recibirán el manual ARG. Debido a que los espacios están limitados, debe confirmar su asistencia, enviando un mensaje a: Nayda.Santiago@ece.uprm.edu.
A continuación, se incluye una descripcion del taller.
The Affinity Research Group Model: Creating and Maintaining Effective Research Teams.
Undergraduate research is a well-known approach to integrate knowledge and provide practice of the skills critical to business, industry, and government, in particular, refinement of cognitive and interpersonal skills, enhancement of personal growth, and inculcation of intellectual and management habits. While a common practice is to recruit and involve the most visibly successful students, this results in lowering the number of promising students who can benefit from research experiences. To extend the research experience to a broader range of students, particularly students from under-represented groups, UTEP successfully developed and implemented the Affinity Research Group (ARG) model that provides students with opportunities to learn, use, and integrate the knowledge and skills that are required for research with those required for cooperative work. The model creates an integrated research environment in which a collective of diverse students and faculty contribute to the research effort. The three core components are: the definition of a group's core ideology; active fostering of student connectedness; and application of deliberate management practices that reinforce skills development and promote establishment of cooperative teams. Through the ARG model, faculty mentors create and sustain a cooperative environment that explicitly develops skills to make students successful in research, academe, and the workforce. As a result, students and faculty, in particular those from underrepresented groups, can reach higher levels of productivity and achievement. Through CCLI funding and IEEE-Computer Society Seed funding, the investigators have published an ARG handbook (www.computer.org/arg).
The workshop will introduce the Affinity Research Group model. At the end of the workshop, participants will have: outlined the core purpose of their research group and defined a set of outcomes; learned about ARG components and best practices and shared their best practices in the research experience; developed activities to implement in a research setting (i.e., research group, instructional lab, or course); learned about strategies and become familiar with templates that assist in the development of the student and success of the project; and learned about an evaluation and assessment framework for continuous improvement and accountability purposes.
The primary audience for the workshop is faculty who are forming research groups. Graduate and undergraduate students are welcome to attend.
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