Research-with-Practice: Insights from Delivering a Workshop Linking Undergraduate Research, Identity and Epistemic Thinking

During the final phase of a research project, we developed a workshop aimed at introducing engineering educators to our research-based model of students' researcher identity (how students see themselves as researchers) and epistemic thinking (ways of knowing and understanding concepts) and also enabling these educators to identify ways to modify existing course activities based on this model. This paper describes our research-with-practice (as opposed to research-to-practice) phase, during which we designed and piloted the workshop and used workshop participant feedback to revise how we describe and communicate research insights and outcomes. Outcomes of the researchwith-practice cycle include an explicit description of the workshop elements, including how our research-based model was presented to and refined by workshop participants. In addition, we report on feedback about how workshop participants might improve their course activities based on their understanding of the model and insights from our research.