Engage To Excel: Producing One Million Additional College Graduates With Degrees

Research is very essential to the development of society, as research findings can support an ongoing idea, create new theories and notions, and ultimately propose new methods of action in all fields of study. Whether it be to find new treatments for patients in the world of medicine, or to advance an already established idea in technology, the use of research is an imperative technique to reconstruct and renovate prior knowledge into new knowledge that carries broad relevance. In Engage to Excel: Producing One Million Additional College Graduates with Degrees in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics: Report to the President, the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) specifies that the United States needs to produce roughly one million more alumnae in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) to combat the lack of researchers and workers in such a mounting field. To do so, the (PCAST) called for a reconsideration of the traditional laboratory/lecture course to incorporate an authentic, hands-on research experience (Olsen and Riordan, 2012). This being said, it can be inferred

This idea is derived from Lev Vygotsky’s constructive approach to learning and discovery in which it is believed that a student’s potential to learn about, build on, and ultimately contribute to the world’s knowledge happens through constructive learning and using peer collaboration as a resource (Vygotsky, 1978). Likewise, CUREs focus on collaboration and building on prior knowledge to help students learn scientific processes and establish a researcher identity to conclusively facilitate the growth of science, technology, and