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A new model for a required senior research experience

Published: 01 December 2002 Publication History

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This paper describes a new way of implementing a required undergraduate research experience. In addition to the project itself, this experience also includes a senior capstone seminar that teaches students how to do research, a scholarly capstone paper, and a capstone conference that reproduces the feel of an actual scientific meeting. This paper describes these experiences along with an assessment of how it has worked in its first years of operation.

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cover image ACM SIGCSE Bulletin
ACM SIGCSE Bulletin  Volume 34, Issue 4
December 2002
151 pages
ISSN:0097-8418
DOI:10.1145/820127
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Association for Computing Machinery

New York, NY, United States

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Published: 01 December 2002
Published in SIGCSE Volume 34, Issue 4

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