Race and Gender Differences in Undergraduate Research Mentoring Structures and Research Outcomes

Undergraduate research with mentorship from faculty may be particularly important for ensuring the persistence of women and minority students in science. This study examines whether undergraduate researchers’ outcomes differ in relation to their gender or race/ethnicity and whether the mentoring structures they experience explain the differences.

• Publication year

  2017

• Venue

  CBE - Life Sciences Education

• Publication date

  2017-10-13

• Fields of study

  Sociology, Medicine, Education, Psychology

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1187/cbe.16-07-0211PMID 28550078PMCID 5459252
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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• No concepts are published for this paper.

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