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CSTEP Research

CSTEP Research Activities

The CSTEP program has implemented “The Proyecto Access CSTEP Research Initiative (PACRI)” that is an intensive two semester research training activity with the objective to enhance research skills of minority/underrepresented students pursuing careers in STEM and license professions.

Students will be paired with a faculty mentor, attend research workshops, and field trips, and present their research topics at the CSTEP Statewide Conference and other research conferences and events.

2023 April CSTEP 24th Annual Research Conference

Jose Armando Keppis smiling in a suit with blue tie. He is standing to the right of his trifold post at the research conference

Jose Armando Keppis

Ronald Renold Salnave is in a suit and smiling while standing to the left of his trifold poster at the researcher conference

Ronald Renold Salnave

Julian Cepero is standing to the right of her poster, smiling brightly and arms proudly spread to display her work

Julian Cepero

Benefits

  • $1,500 stipend per semester
  • Responsible Conduct of Research Training (RCR)
    • Graduate and Undergraduate Students who are involved in research, regardless of funding, must complete CUNY-required modules of the Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative’s (CITI) on-line training in RCR within six weeks of
      initiating their research activities. Instructions for completing this training are available at Responsible Conduct of Research

2023 Hostos Research Symposium

Three people are standing around a poster presentation talking with one another

Gladys Medina De Munoz, Fatoumata Sakho, and Yaxeny Hernandez

Katie Arzu stands, smiling, next to her research poster presentation

Katie Arzu

Two students in coordinated attire present their research poster

Kevin Dillon and Fatima Bah

Student researchers will learn:

General research in collaboration with the Hostos Library

  • Formulate research questions.
  • Literature review
  • Methods and materials
  • Methodology

Research designs in statistics

  • Descriptive
  • Correlational
  • Causal-Comparative/Quasi-Experimental
  • Experimental Research.

Research Instruments

  • Surveys
  • Tests
  • Interviews
  • Case studies

 Descriptive and inferential statistics.

  • Descriptive statistics
  • Qualitative data
  • Quantitative data
  • Inferential statistics
  • Hypothesis Testing
  • Linear Regression and Correlation
  • Parametric and non-parametric statistics