UROP Research Mentor Project Submission Portal: Submission #688 | Center for Undergraduate Research and Academic Engagement

Submission information

Submission Number: 688

Submission ID: 14061

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Submission URI: /urop-research-mentor-project-submission-portal

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Created: Mon, 07/22/2024 - 09:37 AM

Completed: Mon, 07/22/2024 - 09:47 AM

Changed: Mon, 10/14/2024 - 01:29 PM

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Language: English

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Webform: UROP Project Proposal Portal

Submitted to: UROP Research Mentor Project Submission Portal

Research Mentor Information

Primary Research Mentor Name Katherine (Katie) Gipalo

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When potential research assistants are reaching out via email, what is your preferred honorific? Ms.

Contact Email (FSU Email if affiliated) kgipalo@fsu.edu

Position Title FSU Staff/Campus Partner

FSU College (if applicable) N/A

FSU Department or Non-FSU Organization Affiliation Office of Institutional Research

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Overall Project Details

Title of the Project Are We the Champions? Determining How to Measure Effectiveness in Institutional Research

Project Keywords Institutional research, higher education, measuring effectiveness

Are you currently looking for research assistants? No

Number of Research Assistants Needed 2

Relevant Research Assistant Major(s) Open to all majors

Project Location: On FSU Main Campus

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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? 5-10

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 FSU IR would like to clarify and expand potential measures of success/effectiveness of our office. We are seeking 1-2 UROP students to help us research what success/effectiveness measures exist for IR offices or other analytics units within postsecondary education, education in general, or any similar industry. Then, we would like the students to (as their summative project) construct a set of recommendations for our office outlining the most appropriate measures of success/effectiveness, with justification for each. The goal of this project is to provide our office the ability to report out our efforts and assess the value of what we produce using the measures constructed.

Research Tasks The undergraduate researchers would use multiple sources of data to explore this issue: a scholarly literature review, a practitioner conference review, results from an FSU data user survey, and interviews with FSU and potentially external IR practitioners.

Skills that research assistant(s) may need: Required: strong communication skills, willingness to learn, ability to work collaboratively, basic familiarity with Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel
Recommended: experience searching online databases/search engines, ability to efficiently sort through google results, interest in higher education administration/improvement
Nice to have: knowledge of qualitative interview procedure, experience with analyzing survey response data, knowledge of evaluation/assessment, SMART goal criteria, and/or strategic planning

Mentoring Philosophy o Importance of balance between mentor engagement and allowing mentees to make mistakes
o Support with mentees developing their professional boundaries
o Facilitate dialogue that allows for feedback and questions in a way that works for the mentee
o Provide clear, direct instruction both verbally and written
o Assist mentees in developing transferable skills that support their broader academic, research, and career goals
o Value communication, organization, and willingness to learn in a mentee
o Desire to support community and connection building between my mentees
o Desire to provide mentorship support to my mentees both during and after the formal time frame of our relationship

Please provide a link to your publications, a video clip, or a website for your research project (if applicable): ir.fsu.edu

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Are you interested in participating in the UROP Research Mentor Roundtable? Yes

Roundtable times and Zoom links Tuesday, September 3rd - 1:30-2pm (https://fsu.zoom.us/j/96958103234?from=addon)
Thursday, September 5th - 4-4:30pm (https://fsu.zoom.us/j/93721804162?from=addon)
Friday, September 6th - 9:30-10am (https://fsu.zoom.us/j/95461326657?from=addon)

Recording from Sept 3rd (for those that cannot attend any live roundtables): https://fsu.zoom.us/rec/share/LWVlKcne_Fl-zf-SAfo6oAhzW9QNUlGn1tm6KboOkcjrwA8rUwlnnsuzs53GTQgK.cLNmUKdBC2DpUsy2

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UROP Program Elements

Mentor Handbook, FAQs, and Communication Yes

UROP Performance Evaluation Yes

Materials Grant Yes

UROP Poster Presentation Yes

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Year 2024

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