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The primary goal of Pre-MAP is to increase the retention of students traditionally underrepresented in science, math, and technical majors. We have documented our curriculum and best practices for your downloading pleasure: Overview of Pre-MAP Research Seminar Curricula

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  1. The primary goal of Pre-MAP is to increase the retention of students traditionally underrepresented in science, math, and technical majors. We have documented our curriculum and best practices for your downloading pleasure: • Overview of Pre-MAP • Research Seminar Curricula • Guide for Research Mentors • Guide for Academic Mentors (in prep) Phil Rosenfield: philrose@astro.washington.edu Summary

  2. The primary goal of Pre-MAP is to increase the retention of students traditionally underrepresented in science, math, and technical majors. To achieve this goal, Pre-MAP: engages students in discipline-specific research provides advising, mentoring, and academic support while building a sense of community among participants Pre-MAP Mission Statement

  3. Pre-MAP students take a seminar (concurrent with an introductory astronomy course) which teaches astronomy research methods, and starts them on research projects. The goal is to excite students about getting involved in research, and to give them confidence in participating in Astronomy. First Quarter Seminar

  4. Program Goals after Seminar

  5. Pre-MAP Seminar

  6. Pre-MAP Seminar

  7. 3. Introduce students to the many aspects of scientific research A Cosmic Perspective by Neil DeGrasse Tyson What is the purpose of scientific research? How should the public view scientific research? What type of person does the author portray as a scientist; who does science? Example of student work: A scientist is one that works to enlighten, understand, reason, and offer guidance to those that do not have the same opportunities to think and feel the same...

  8. 3. Introduce students to the many aspects of scientific research The Sky isFalling By Gregg Easterbrook What is the purpose of scientific research? How should the public view scientific research? What type of person does the author portray as a scientist; who does science? Example of student work: In this article, he presents the purpose of scientific research to the public as being necessary if we want to stay out of danger. The purpose is to make the general public aware that these things could occur.

  9. 3. Introduce students to the many aspects of scientific research Discovery of a Candidate Inner Oort Cloud Planetoid, Brown et al., ApJ2004, 617, 645 Goals They have a good first experience reading a scientific paper They feel they understand the paper and that they taught themselves.

  10. 3. Introduce students to the many aspects of scientific research The Elevator Pitch One‐line Elevator Pitch Describe your research to someone who doesn’t know any science.

  11. 3. Introduce students to the many aspects of scientific research

  12. 4. Get students off to a successful start in their science major Find out as soon as possible what studying habits work Goal • How to do a problem set • Getting the most out of group study sessions • How to structure exam studying • How to take a test, explaining the physics-exam curve

  13. 4. Get students off to a successful start in their science major Loose credit only for a lack of knowledge on the subject Goal • Go through the test and tally up how many points lost/issue • poor studying, silly mistake, misunderstood the question, didn’t know the material • How did you study for that question? How did you know that? Example...

  14. The primary goal of Pre-MAP is to increase the retention of students traditionally underrepresented in science, math, and technical majors. We have documented our curriculum and best practices for your downloading pleasure: • Overview of Pre-MAP • Research Seminar Curricula • Guide for Research Mentors • Guide for Academic Mentors (in prep) Phil Rosenfield:philrose@astro.washington.edu Questions?

  15. www.astro.washington.edu/premap/

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  17. Pre-MAP research mentors are volunteer faculty members, post-docs, or graduate students working on their own or in teams with students in the second half of the research seminar In a successful research project, students: complete a task they understand and feel like they have participated in research feel confident presenting preliminary results at the end of the course feel they could continue their work in the following quarter for research credit 1. Successful Research Experience

  18. 2. Teach students programming concepts • Basic UNIX • Data manipulation: Read, Write, Plot in either IDL or Python • Most of the applicable programming skills are taught by the Research Mentors.

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