BRSS

Accomplishments so far for BRSS:

• Development of undergraduate instructional material & redoing all job aids from last year
• Development of undergraduate supervision materials for the graduate students
• Development of a specific weekly thesis turn-in sheet for the undergraduates participating as PSY 499 students
• Altering of the graduate R&D paper to fit their suggestions
• Addition of undergraduate thesis turn ins to ensure quality final products
• HSIRB submissions
• Development of a training manual for the BRSS supervisors
• Major revisions to the BRSS graduate system manager manual
• Coordination of undergraduate orals
• Development of instructional guidelines and forms for the undergraduate recruitment process
• Altering of the weekly policies to fit the new needs of the projects
• Some of our undergraduates have been awarded scholarships based on letters of support written by the BRSS system
• Continuous revisions to the graduate and undergraduate materials
• Development of HSIRB instructional materials relating to BATS and organization of forms

Disconnects:

• PhD and assistantship student tracking is not systematic enough
• Graduate student instructional documents need to be improved like the undergrad materials were
• Improvement in the MA Paper weekly writing assignment and graduate R&D Paper weekly writing assignment guidelines