Department of English, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA 15705, USA.
CBE Life Sci Educ. 2012 Winter;11(4):378-85. doi: 10.1187/cbe.12-04-0043.
We used computational linguistic and content analyses to explore the concept of project ownership for undergraduate research. We used linguistic analysis of student interview data to develop a quantitative methodology for assessing project ownership and applied this method to measure degrees of project ownership expressed by students in relation to different types of educational research experiences. The results of the study suggest that the design of a research experience significantly influences the degree of project ownership expressed by students when they describe those experiences. The analysis identified both positive and negative aspects of project ownership and provided a working definition for how a student experiences his or her research opportunity. These elements suggest several features that could be incorporated into an undergraduate research experience to foster a student's sense of project ownership.
我们使用计算语言学和内容分析来探索本科研究中项目所有权的概念。我们使用学生访谈数据的语言分析来开发一种评估项目所有权的定量方法，并应用该方法来衡量学生在不同类型的教育研究经验中表达的项目所有权程度。研究结果表明，研究经验的设计极大地影响了学生在描述这些经验时表达的项目所有权程度。该分析确定了项目所有权的正反两方面，并为学生体验研究机会的方式提供了一个工作定义。这些要素表明，在本科研究经验中可以融入一些特征，以培养学生的项目所有权意识。
