«The program is meant to
provide authentic research experience to students with little to no background knowledge in science,» says David Asai, senior director of science education at HHMI, based in Bethesda, Maryland.
But in this week's Science, five researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, reviewed the literature, asking some basic questions: «[W] hat are
authentic research experiences?
When she discovered the Research Experience for Teachers (RET) summer program at the Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering (CSNE), she saw an opportunity to not only introduce her students to neural engineering but to also immerse herself in
an authentic research experience.
Makarevitch I, Frechette C, Wiatros N. (2015)
Authentic Research Experience and «Big Data» Analysis in the Classroom: Maize Response to Abiotic Stress.
The Green Bank Observatory Radio Astronomer for a Day program provides
an authentic research experience for students in grades 5 and up.