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Kling, Thomas P.; Salomone, Matthew – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2015
The importance of high-tech careers has risen as the international competitiveness of US students on tests of science and math has declined. The problem is compounded by a persistent inequity in STEM participation and achievement in the US across gender and racial and ethnic groups. Bridgewater State University's Student Retention Enhancement…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, STEM Education, Introductory Courses, Science Achievement
Czujko, Roman; Ivie, Rachel; Stith, James H. – Statistical Research Center of the American Institute of Physics, 2008
This paper presents data covering the representation of African Americans among physics and geoscience degree recipients at each stage of the educational system. The data were collected by several statistical agencies and are here provided in far more detail than has ever been available before. By placing all the data in one place, this paper…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, Majors (Students), Racial Composition, African American Students
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Kawasaki, Keiko; Herrenkohl, Leslie Rupert; Yeary, Sherry A. – International Journal of Science Education, 2004
The purpose of this paper is to carefully examine the evolution of students' theory building and modeling, critical components of scientific epistemologies, over a unit of study on sinking and floating in one third/fourth grade classroom. The study described in this paper follows in the tradition of Design Experiments (Brown 1992, Collins 1990)…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Science Instruction, Elementary School Science, Scientific Principles