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- Title
Reflections on a Student Research Journal: What are the impacts, and are they worth it?
- Authors
Waye, Laurie; Simpson, Allie
- Abstract
A key to ensuring the success of co-curricular, post-secondary programs is evaluation: How do we know we are having the impacts that we planned for? In this article, we draw on our research, reflect, and invite dialogue on the impacts of hosting a co-curricular opportunity, an undergraduate research journal. The impacts of student publishing have received some attention in recent literature but the discussion has not kept up with the growing prominence of student research journals in North American academic institutions. In this paper, we focus on three areas of impact: the lateral impacts, such as the administrative commitment of running a journal, the direct impacts, such as on student authors, and the indirect impacts, like on the state of knowledge. Further, this paper questions how we as researchers and authors should consider the impact of student research and how these types of publications could be more than a means of showcasing the integration of research and teaching at the undergraduate level. We hope to add to the existing literature and inspire an ongoing dialogue regarding the direct, indirect, and lateral impacts of undergraduate research journals and other related models of student engagement and research-inspired teaching, and whether these impacts outweigh some the challenges and concerns.
- Subjects
STUDENT publications; STUDENT research; STUDENT participation in curriculum planning
- Publication
Transformative Dialogues: Teaching & Learning Journal, 2016, Vol 9, Issue 2, p1
- ISSN
1918-0853
- Publication type
Article