Undergraduate research enriches students’ learning experiences and skills development. While undergraduate research courses were affected significantly because of the lack of hands-on, lab-setting environment with the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, the courses came to value the experiences and insights gained through the pandemic and retain certain adaptations still favorable to the courses after the pandemic. The desirable balance of students’ skills was impeded by the pandemic, and the teaching and engagement of instructors with the research students experienced continuous adaptations. Utilizing cluster analysis to identify the relative strengths of developed skills, relevant interventions can be staged with personalized/targeted research projects. The skills with disproportionate strength can be enhanced by the intervention without face-to-face instructions such as asynchronous collaborations, online lab safety training, and professional oral and written communications. Assessment of students’ research skills in the course of the pandemic sheds light into the lasting changes and adaptations that further help create reproducible archival of materials and enhance the efficiency of the research courses, which contribute to leveraging the experiences from the pandemic. The adjustment of research objectives and detailed tasks necessitated by the pandemic was conducive to the enhancement of alternative skill sets and can be tailored to the goals of individual institutions, programs, and courses.

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COVID-19 大流行期间及未来发展的独立本科化学研究课程教学和学生技能的演变

本科研究丰富了学生的学习经验和技能发展。虽然本科生研究课程由于缺乏实践性的实验室环境而受到了重大影响，但这些课程开始重视通过大流行获得的经验和见解，并保留了某些仍然有利于学生的调整。疫情后的课程。疫情阻碍了学生技能的理想平衡，教师与研究生的教学和互动也经历了不断的适应。利用聚类分析来确定已开发技能的相对优势，可以通过个性化/有针对性的研究项目来实施相关干预措施。通过异步协作、在线实验室安全培训以及专业口头和书面沟通等无需面对面指导的干预，可以增强强度不成比例的技能。对学生在大流行期间的研究技能的评估揭示了持久的变化和适应，进一步有助于创建可复制的材料档案并提高研究课程的效率，这有助于利用大流行的经验。大流行所需的研究目标和详细任务的调整有利于增强替代技能，并且可以根据各个机构、项目和课程的目标进行定制。