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.
@article{arxiv.2003.00364,
title = {Undergraduate Researcher Personas},
author = {Tra Huynh and Adrian M Madsen and Eleanor C Sayre},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2003.00364},
year = {2020}
}