by Xueli Wang, Kelly Wickersham, Seo Young Lee, Na Lor, Ashley Gaskew & Amy Prevost - 2020
This mixed-methods study investigates factors associated with beginning community college STEM students’ decisions to transfer in STEM fields, and how students describe these factors as either supports or barriers that undergird their decisions to stay or leave the STEM transfer pathway.
by Christian Fischer, Brandon Foster, Ayana McCoy, Frances Lawrenz, Chris Dede, Arthur Eisenkraft, Barry Fishman, Kim Frumin & Abigail Levy - 2020
This quantitative study examines relationships between student performance and student, teacher, teaching, teacher professional development, and school characteristics in the context of a large-scale, top-down, nationwide curriculum and examination reform across multiple science disciplines and different stages of the reform. Levers to improve student performance include teachers’ perceived administrative support, self-efficacy, teaching experience, elements of classroom instruction, and selected aspects of professional development participation.
by Jay Stratte Plasman, Michael Gottfried & Ethan Hutt - 2020
This study explores the changes in applied STEM CTE participation over time as related to the authorization of Perkins IV CTE legislation. Implications are discussed.
by Xueli Wang, Ning Sun, Brit Wagner & Brett Nachman - 2019
This descriptive phenomenological study explores how 2-year college students participating in STEM classes and programs perceive themselves as learners.
by Jamaal Young, Mary Capraro, Robert Capraro & Marti Cason - 2018
This article focuses on the Every Student Succeeds Act, which stipulates numerous provisions for supporting science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Authors reviewed the provisions in five areas pertinent to STEM and presented recommendations to support access, equity, and achievement in STEM content areas.
by Xin Ma, Xian Wu, Jing Yuan & Xingkai Luo - 2018
In this article, the authors separate the competing effects on science achievement among four educational units: students, classrooms, teachers, and schools. They identify factors at each level critical to science achievement.
by Roger Azevedo, Nicholas Mudrick, Michelle Taub & Franz Wortha - 2017
In this article, we argue that successful STEM learning depends on the conceptual, methodological, and analytical coupling of metacognition and emotions during learning about 21st-century skills with advanced learning technologies.
by Tali Berglas-Shapiro, Bat-Sheva Eylon & Zahava Scherz - 2017
This article describes a study aimed at examining students’ use of specific SRL processes when learning with a specially designed technology-enhanced learning environment.
by Cameron Sublett & Michael Gottfried - 2017
This study seeks to identify the individual and institutional predictors of applied STEM course enrollment in high school. A secondary aim of the study is to explore how factors of applied STEM coursetaking are affected by when students choose to take these courses.
by Pamela Aschbacher & Marsha Ing - 2017
This study explores the relationships among fifth-graders’ perceived learning opportunities in school science, their perceptions of self in science, and their desire to take more science courses in middle and high school, using two different samples of students.
by Angela Barton, Edna Tan & Day Greenberg - 2017
This article describes how and why youth engage in making in an after-school, youth-focused, community-based makerspace program. Using a mobilities of learning framework, authors discuss how youth appropriated and repurposed the process of making, and unpack how the program attempted to value and negotiate youths’ ways of making from an equity-oriented perspective.
by Sarah Selmer, Melissa Luna & James Rye - 2015
The purpose of this research is to seek insights into teachers’ experiences as they implement garden-based learning. Our results add to existing frameworks describing the relationship between the teacher and the curriculum specifically in the garden-based learning context.
by Martha Cecilia Bottia, Elizabeth Stearns, Roslyn Arlin Mickelson, Stephanie Moller & Ashley Parker - 2015
This study examines the influence of high school exposure to basic science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) courses, high school exposure to STEM-related environment and activities, high school quantity of exposure to precollege STEM classes, and the quality of the latter for a sample of college-bound North Carolina students’ intent to major in STEM and likelihood of declaring a STEM major.
by Jrène Rahm - 2014
The chapter explores the space–time configuration of youth-voice driven science practices outside of school that are part of an emergent field of study known as informal science education (ISE). Education is an emergent phenomenon grounded in a relational geography of youths’ complex space–time configurations. A focus on youths’ mobilities offers new insights into the manner youth contribute to their own learning and becoming.
by Toni Rogat, Shelly Witham & Clark Chinn - 2014
Our purpose is to enrich current conceptualizations of autonomy support that remain constrained by the context of study and by the limited available descriptions of teacher enactment. Toward this end, we richly describe teachers’ provision of academically significant autonomy support within an inquiry-based science curricular context to incorporate higher quality differentiations.
by Michael Gottfried, Robert Bozick & Sinduja Srinivasan - 2014
This study examines the relationship between applied STEM coursetaking (i.e., ‘scientific research & engineering’ and ‘information technology’) in high school and standardized math achievement. Using longitudinal data from a nationally-representative cohort of high school students, this study tests the effect of enrolling in applied STEM courses conditional on pipeline placement in traditional academic math courses, with the former emphasizing the application of concepts taught in the latter to specific occupational settings. Fixed effects regression analyses reveal that applied STEM courses have a statistically significant, but substantively small positive effect on math test scores. Students who fall lower on the math ability pipeline (i.e., who take only below average math courses like basic math and pre-Algebra) benefit much more from applied STEM courses than do students who take more advanced courses.
by Sue Larson - 2014
This chapter describes an empirical study that tests the motivational and learning effects of an intervention designed to initiate and sustain interest and engagement in high school biology classrooms. Positive effects were demonstrated for conceptual understanding, vocabulary acquisition, and perceptions of the learning experiences.
by Gil Noam & Ashima Shah - 2014
This chapter highlights the fit between youth-development-oriented programming and informal science activities in out-of-school time (OST) and illustrates how science and youth development can and should co-occur. The clover model and Dimensions of Success tool are introduced as lenses for designing and assessing science program quality in OST.
by Debra Meyer & Dennis Smithenry - 2014
While recognizing that instructional scaffolding in a whole-class context can engage students’ learning as they move through individual zone of proximal developments (ZPDs), in this chapter, we argue that instructional scaffolding also can collectively engage a class through a shared ZPD when participant structures and discourse practices provide for coparticipation and alter traditional notions of teacher support and shared responsibility. A case study of a chemistry classroom is presented to substantiate this argument and illustrate how instructional scaffolding can be used as a support for collective engagement.
by Mark Engberg & Gregory Wolniak - 2013
This article examines the effects of individual- and institutional-level factors across secondary and postsecondary contexts on students’ likelihood of majoring in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields in college.
by Julie Luft - 2012
It is important that content specialists have induction programs that are tailored to their needs, given that content knowledge is important during instruction. Unfortunately, most content specialists (including science teachers) don't experience content-focused induction programs. In an effort to illuminate the need for this type of induction program, this chapter provides an overview of the programs and research that the author has conducted with beginning secondary teachers.
by Jianzhong Xu, Linda Coats & Mary Davidson - 2012
This study examines the perspectives of 8 exemplary African American elementary teachers toward science homework.
by Xin Ma - 2009
This research examines the relationship between mathematics and science coursework patterns among high school graduates using data from the 2000 High School Transcript Study.
by Ian Winchester - 2008
Perhaps the most distinctive achievement of Western civilization is its advancement of and reliance on the disciplines of natural science, allowing humans an unprecedented understanding—and influence—over their environment. This capacity to organize certain kinds of experience has succeeded spectacularly, sometimes beyond human control and sometimes to the exclusion of other ways of understanding. Here Ian Winchester contrasts science’s focus on regularities with history’s concerns with understanding the individual events, thoughts, and actions of particular people (including scientists). He explores how current scientific thinking came to be so dominant by tracing its development over three key historical periods.
by Marlene Thier - 2005
Today we are all bombarded with powerful images, words, and sounds from various media, designed to win our hearts and minds. As adults, we have life’s experiences, the advantages of age, and often higher education as filters to help us navigate these powerful messages. Young people, at very confusing times in their lives, are trying to figure out who they are and what the world is about. How can we, as adults, help young people figure out the impact of media on their decision making, and how can we help them to use the lens of skepticism to be sure they maintain control over their life’s choices? An analytical approach to evidence is essential with the mass media.
by Okhee Lee - 2003
Based on the conception of equity from a cultural anthropology perspective, the paper addresses epistemological and pedagogical issues concerning equity in science content, learning, and teaching for students from diverse languages and cultures. It provides a synthesis of major issues and research findings for effective classroom practices in the multicultural science education literature. It also offers recommendations for a research agenda to achieve the goal of “science for all,” including students from diverse languages and cultures.
by Kevin Pugh - 2002
The article reports on a quasi experimental study, which examined the relative effectiveness of two instructional approaches (an innovative approach developed by the author and a case-study approach) at fostering idea-based, transformative experiences in a high school science class. The construct of an idea-based, transformative experience was derived from Dewey's work on aesthetics, experience, and education. Such experience involves the active use of a concept and an expansion of perspection and value.
by Joseph Krajcik, Rachel Mamlok & Barbara Hug - 2001
In this chapter we trace “what and how science should be taught" through the twentieth century. We make reference to a number of NSSE publications, as well as other publications, that have influenced science education.
by Michael Matthews - 2000
As one constructivist remarked, “In summary then the term ‘constructivism’ appears to be fashionable, mostly used loosely with no clear definition of the term, and is used without clear links to an epistemological base.” Although there are countless thousands of constructivist articles, it is rare to find ones with fully worked out epistemology, learning theory, educational theory, or ethical and political positions. This makes appraisal difficult.
by Kenneth Tobin - 2000
The first part of this chapter provides a brief overview of changes that have occurred since the mid-1970s in terms of the foci of publications in the Journal of Research in Science Teaching at intervals of approximately five years. The second part of the chapter describes the manner in which I have applied theory in science education in a context of the local communities in which I participated. I describe the ways in which constructivism became an important framework in a context of changes in which I practiced science education and concomitant changes occurring within the science education community at large.
