Supervisors

EvaluateUR-Student Open Access, or E-Student OA, offers an easy way to encourage reflective practice in students participating in independent research, CUREs, internships, and collegiate competitions without placing a significant burden on a supervisor. Based on the highly successful EvaluateUR Method, E-Student OA provides periodic email prompts to stimulate their reflective thinking and increase metacognition.

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the EvaluateUR Method

Why use EvaluateUR-Student Open Access?

Benefits to Students

• Students learn and practice the discipline of realistic self-assessment
• Introductions to a comprehensive list of competencies and skills
• Experience communicating in their discipline
• Greater confidence and self-awareness as students track their academic growth
• Stronger applications to graduate programs or resumes

Benefits to Mentors

(can be faculty, post docs, graduate students, or anyone mentoring a research student)

• More consistent and reliable assessments of research students' academic strengths and weaknesses
• Compliments and enhances the research mentoring process
• Helps focus mentoring efforts on specific areas where students may need extra guidance in order to become more independent researchers
• Works for new and experienced mentors

Benefits to UR/REU Directors

• Acquire reliable data to support campus assessments of UR (and, often, related funding requests)
• Obtain information that can support efforts to recruit and retain students
• Supports all academic disciplines