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McLure, Felicity I.; Koul, Rekha B.; Fraser, Barry J. – Learning Environments Research, 2022
In response to the leaky STEM pipeline, particularly for girls, many schools have introduced integrated STEM (iSTEM) programs to enable students to solve problems using skills from each STEM area and hopefully enhance their interest in continuing with STEM subjects in senior-high school and university. We investigated whether gender differences in…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Integrated Curriculum, STEM Education, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Kërënxhi, Svjetllana; Gjoci, Pranvera – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2015
In this paper, we recommend mathematical teaching through dual treatments. The dual treatments notion, classified in dual interpretations, dual analyses, dual solutions, and dual formulations, is explained through concrete examples taken from mathematical textbooks of elementary education. Dual treatments provide opportunities for creating…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Textbooks, Elementary School Mathematics
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Inoa, Rafael; Weltsek, Gustave; Tabone, Carmine – Journal for Learning through the Arts, 2014
Past studies have shown positive correlations between the arts and academic achievement when the arts were integrated into the literature curriculum. Other studies have shown positive associations between the arts and other areas of the curriculum, such as mathematics and science. Considering the Theory of Change, which employs understandings in…
Descriptors: Theater Arts, Language Arts, Drama, Mathematics Achievement
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Tong, Fuhui; Irby, Beverly J.; Lara-Alecio, Rafael; Koch, Janice – Journal of Educational Research, 2014
The authors examined the impact of 2 subsequent, longitudinal interdisciplinary interventions for 58 Hispanic English language learners (ELLs): (a) Grade 5 science with English language/reading embedded (i.e., science intervention) and (b) K-3 English language/reading with science embedded (i.e., language/reading intervention). Results revealed…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Hispanic American Students, Grade 5, Literacy
National Center for Engineering and Technology Education, 2008
As part of the usual end of year meeting that has been a feature of the National Center for Engineering and Technology Education (NCETE) project, a conference intending to provide a forum for young voices in an outside of the Center was organized. The basic model for the gathering was borrowed from track and field. This was to be an intellectual…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Educational Technology, Program Effectiveness, Self Efficacy