ResearchExperience.org

It is a program designed to guide high school students through every step of their first research project. The course was developed by a professor who has spent 15 years teaching students at an Ivy League university how to carry out individual research projects. A Research Experience includes video lessons supplemented with handouts, templates for your project, datasets that are ready to use, links to resources on the web, and options for individualized feedback. Email [email protected] if you have questions not answered here.

With A Research Experience, you will be learning directly from an Ivy League professor, not from an assistant or a staff member at a private company. And you can do it on your own schedule and start whenever you'd like - all of the materials for the course are immediately available when you register.

This course is for any student who needs a guide through every step of the research project. It was designed for high school students who would like to try out research for the first time, college students who are beginning a research project, or even graduate students who need help making their way through the winding path to writing a research paper.

This class is designed to guide students through the research process in any area, whether it's history, english, economics, public health, psychology, sociology, political science, computer science, engineering, biology or chemistry. The process we've developed works for students with any skills and all backgrounds. If you are more comfortable with math and computer science, you can download a dataset from the web and analyze the relationship between daily weather patterns and stock prices; if you have zero interest in math and love to talk to people, you can interview friends or neighbors about their perceptions of local police. No matter your interests, we'll provide lots of ideas for potential research projects and we'll go through all the steps involved in putting together a research project for any subject.

The course includes 21 video lessons plus access to a range of additional resources, including: handouts that give students templates for every task; a template for the final paper that you can download; a set of datasets that are "cleaned" and ready to use, along with descriptions of the data and ideas for analyses that can be done with the data. If you are comfortable taking the course without much feedback, you can sign up for the course alone. If you would like to work with a professor on your project, you should apply for the enhanced version of the program.

Students who are accepted into the program have two options. One option is to meet with the professor at the start and conclusion of the program, while receiving written feedback on their work throughout. The other option is to meet regularly with the professor to discuss each stage of the research project in live online meetings.

Here are some possibilities: submit it to a research competition; submit it to a journal designed for high school or college students (we provide links to several journals in the course); submit it as a final project for a class; submit it as a writing sample in a college application or graduate school application; send it to a professor or a potential employer as part of an application to work as an intern or research assistant.

Many want their college applications to stand out, and carrying out research is a great way to show that you are prepared for college. Others want to submit a project to a research competition, or get their work published in an academic journal. Others want to learn skills that will be invaluable when they enter college. And others simply want to learn how to investigate questions that fascinate them.