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Allison Hahn Elowson; Greg Wickliff; Paul Thompson Hunter; Alisa Wickliff; Kristen Fye; David Pugalee; Christopher Gordon – Journal of STEM Education: Innovations and Research, 2024
Summer Ventures in Science and Mathematics is a four-week summer enrichment program where high school students study a variety of STEM topics. This article explores how participation in the Mathematical Evolution course affected students' skills in research, communication, and scientific reasoning and changes in self-efficacy towards STEM. Data…
Descriptors: Student Research, Scientific Concepts, Thinking Skills, Secondary School Mathematics
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Virtue, Emily E.; Maddox, Gayle; Pfaff, Ken – Learning Communities: Research & Practice, 2019
A majority of the research on the impact of learning communities has focused on the positive outcomes for students in their first year of study (Andrade, 2007; Goldman, 2012; Laverick, 2018; Wathington, Pretlow, & Mitchell, 2010). Less is known about the impact of learning community involvement as students complete their enrollment and persist…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Student Attitudes, College Seniors, Peer Relationship
Corn, Jenifer; Tingen, Jennifer; Argueta, Rodolfo; Patel, Ruchi; Stanhope, Daniel – Online Submission, 2010
Laptops have been shown to improve 21st century skills such as life and career skills, learning and innovation skills, and group collaboration, but how does this ever-present technology affect the thinking of today's "screenager"? Through an analysis of focus groups and surveys with students in 1:1 initiatives across North Carolina,…
Descriptors: High Schools, Focus Groups, Laptop Computers, Educational Technology