UROP Research Mentor Project Submission Portal: Submission #679
Submission information
Submission Number: 679
Submission ID: 14016
Submission UUID: 47602d0e-8b07-485d-91ae-221c6b275768
Submission URI: /urop-research-mentor-project-submission-portal
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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
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Submitted to: UROP Research Mentor Project Submission Portal
| Primary Research Mentor Name | Sam Luby |
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| Research Mentor Preferred Pronouns | He/him |
| When potential research assistants are reaching out via email, what is your preferred honorific? | just Sam is fine..! |
| Contact Email (FSU Email if affiliated) | sml23@fsu.edu |
| Position Title | Graduate Student |
| Faculty Advisor Name | Dr. Shouping Hu |
| Faculty Advisor's FSU Email | shu@admin.fsu.edu |
| FSU College (if applicable) | Education, Health, and Human Sciences |
| FSU Department or Non-FSU Organization Affiliation | Education Leadership and Policy Studies |
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| Name of Other Faculty/Collaborator(s) (if applicable) | |
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| Title of the Project | Investigating the influence of high school activities on undergraduate degree success |
| Project Keywords | Common App, quantitative research, college readiness, student success, social science |
| Are you currently looking for research assistants? | Yes |
| Number of Research Assistants Needed | 2 |
| Relevant Research Assistant Major(s) | Education, Sociology, Social Science, Data Science.... Open to all majors |
| Project Location: | On FSU Main Campus |
| If the project location is off campus, does the research assistant(s) need to provide their own transportation? | |
| Please select the choice that most accurately describes your expectations for the research assistant(s): | Partially Remote |
| Approximately how many hours a week would the research assistant(s) need to work? | 10 |
| Roughly what time frame do you expect research assistant(s) to work? | Flexible schedule (Combination of business and outside of business. TBD between student and research mentor.) |
| Overall Research Project Description | 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. |
| Research Tasks | 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 |
| Skills that research assistant(s) may need: | Recommended to have background knowledge about Statistics, SPSS, or other social science and quantitative tools |
| Mentoring Philosophy | 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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| Are you interested in participating in the UROP Research Mentor Roundtable? | Yes |
| Roundtable times and Zoom links | Topic: Roundtable #1: Investigating the influence of high school activities on undergraduate degree success Time: Sep 4, 2024 02:30 PM - 03:30PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) Join Zoom Meeting https://zoom.us/j/99661490854?pwd=uwmoMBwAslsOuC5Q0o5FZNHwbgbDva.1 Meeting ID: 996 6149 0854 Passcode: 951800 Topic: Roundtable #2: Investigating the influence of high school activities on undergraduate degree success Time: Sep 6, 2024 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) Join Zoom Meeting https://zoom.us/j/98199461631?pwd=P5rn5aeMbcVILR0JiMb24RCgSZYSen.1 Meeting ID: 981 9946 1631 Passcode: 978247 |
| Roundtable Info | |
| Mentor Handbook, FAQs, and Communication | Yes |
| UROP Performance Evaluation | Yes |
| Materials Grant | Yes |
| UROP Poster Presentation | Yes |
| Faculty Advisor Confirmation | Yes |
| Are you interested in attending in a UROP Research Mentor Workshop Series? | No |
| Year | 2024 |
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