UROP Research Mentor Project Submission Portal: Submission #679

Submission information
Submission Number: 679
Submission ID: 14016
Submission UUID: 47602d0e-8b07-485d-91ae-221c6b275768

Created: Fri, 07/12/2024 - 02:47 PM
Completed: Fri, 07/12/2024 - 02:51 PM
Changed: Tue, 08/27/2024 - 04:59 PM

Remote IP address: 73.48.88.135
Submitted by: Anonymous
Language: English

Is draft: No

Research Mentor Information

Sam Luby
He/him
just Sam is fine..!
sml23@fsu.edu
Graduate Student
Dr. Shouping Hu
shu@admin.fsu.edu
Education, Health, and Human Sciences
Education Leadership and Policy Studies
Samuel Luby. Photo. Fall 2020.jpg

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Overall Project Details

Investigating the influence of high school activities on undergraduate degree success
Common App, quantitative research, college readiness, student success, social science
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Education, Sociology, Social Science, Data Science....

Open to all majors
On FSU Main Campus
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Partially Remote
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Flexible schedule (Combination of business and outside of business. TBD between student and research mentor.)
In collaboration between CLASS (Collaborative Lab for Advancing Student Success) and the FSU Undergraduate Admissions Office, the entire project is focused on connecting data between matriculated students’ Common App descriptive and activity sections with their degree progress information to deduce the relationship between high school activities and university success. Essentially, we are trying to explore the impact on pre-college activities during high school on a student’s success during their undergraduate degree at Florida State University.

In this project, we will be using admissions and university student data. Your role is to help collect, clean, and organize the data, along with creating a literature review on the topic. The intention is for you to contribute to the data efforts of the larger project, while creating your own mini-research paper, using parts of this data, to explore similar concepts of education, social science, college readiness, and student success

This project is ideal for someone interested in a career in research and data science, particularly with an interest in social sciences, public policy, or education. This will be a significant boon to your undergraduate portfolio. This can be completely remote if you prefer, but I'll be on-campus to meet too.
Collect Common App and undergraduate student degree progress data, clean it based on the team’s variables and groupings, and begin organizing it
Conduct literature reviews on related topics of student success and college readiness
Produce own final research paper on related topic using the data
Recommended to have background knowledge about Statistics, SPSS, or other social science and quantitative tools
My masters degree is in education and I have been a college and career counselor for over a decade. I am an educator at heart and my mentoring philosophy focuses on helping my students find their own paths and futures, and building practical tools and knowledge to pursue those paths.

At the beginning, this will involve us figuring out your starting point; both in your practical skills of completing the project and progressing further, but also in your conceptual ideas about how this experience fits with the bigger future picture, and what that future picture looks like.

I will then work to equip you with the information and skills you need to start completing this project. This will be done through meetings, lectures, and small readings or software review. Yes, it is a research project but treat it as a class, as you will be learning. I believe in autonomy and professional respect, and empower you to create your own schedule and meet me virtually to prepare for a postgraduate future that expects this maturity. I envision, however, that we would have at least 1 or 2 in-person meetings, or more if you believe it is useful for your learning progression.

Lastly, this needs to be a meaningful endeavor for you. Therefore, I will encourage you to shape this experience to meet your individual needs. Support my project, while using the opportunity to create your own benefit. The skill to do that will serve you wisely.
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