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Duran, Mesut; Höft, Margret; Lawson, Dan B.; Medjahed, Brahim; Orady, Elsayed A. – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2014
This exploratory study examines the impact of a collaborative inquiry- and design-based afterschool program on urban high school students' IT/STEM learning--using information technology (IT) within the context of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). The study used a mixed methods design, involving 77 participants within…
Descriptors: High School Students, Urban Schools, STEM Education, Information Technology
Tornatzky, Louis G.; Macias, Elsa E.; Jenkins, Davis; Solis, Carlos – Tomas Rivera Policy Institute, 2006
One of the generally accepted premises of current economic thinking is that a large and expanding proportion of growth is tied to what has come to be known as the "knowledge economy" or equivalently, the innovation sector. Despite recent U.S. Census Bureau data indicating that Latinos now constitute the largest minority group of the U.S.…
Descriptors: High School Graduates, Policy Analysis, Information Technology, Hispanic Americans