2020/02/29 by Trà Huỳnh, Adrian Madsen, Huynh, Tra +3
Computer Science · Engineering · Psychology · #Biomedical and Engineering Education #Educational Games and Gamification #FOS: Physical sciences #Persona Design and Applications #Physics Education (physics.ed-ph)
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2003.00364
openalex publication_date 2020/02/29 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Personalized undergraduate research programs can help increase undergraduate students' participation in research. Personas of undergraduate researchers are a powerful means of encapsulating the richness of students' various goals, motivations, and experiences in research. Student personas can support the design of research programs with student-centered approaches that better engage undergraduate students across multiple disciplines. We used interview data and drew on Self-Determination Theory to identify students' various goals and motivations in order to build three undergraduate researcher personas in physics.