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Topal, Selda; Korkmaz, S. Deniz – Elementary School Forum (Mimbar Sekolah Dasar), 2023
Students should be provided with more meaningful learning experiences to attract more students to STEM careers, Out-of-School learning environments can offer students exciting and motivating learning opportunities that formal environments cannot provide. Therefore, national education reforms in many countries that are working on popularizing STEM…
Descriptors: Grade 6, STEM Education, Informal Education, Career Choice
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Hinojosa, Leighanna; Swisher, Esmarie; Garneau, Nicole – International Journal of Science Education, 2021
The goal of inclusive design to promote participation of marginalised groups in science is ubiquitous across informal science education, and in the growing field of citizen science. Yet the aspiration of equality in the sciences continues to be met with challenges. Despite decades of educational research studying the barriers of participation in…
Descriptors: Equal Education, STEM Education, Ethnography, Science Education
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Marriott, Lisa K.; Link, Aaron Raz; Anitori, Roberto; Blackwell, Ernest; Blas, Andrea; Brock, Jennifer; Burke, Tracey; Burrows, Julia A.; Cabrera, Alexis P.; Helsham, Derek; Liban, Lorna B.; Mackiewicz, Marilyn R.; Maruyama, Mika; Milligan-Myhre, Kathryn C. A.; Pangelinan, Perry J. C.; Hattori-Uchima, Margaret; Reed, Russell; Simon, Benjamin E.; Solomon, Beylul; Trinidad, Alma M. O.; Wyatt, Letisha R.; Covarrubia, Alonso Delgado; Zell, Adrienne; Adrienne, Thomas E.; Morris, Cynthia; Crespo, Carlos J. – Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2021
Research experience provides critical training for new biomedical research scientists. Students from underrepresented populations studying science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) are increasingly recruited into research pathways to diversify STEM fields. However, support structures outside of research settings designed to help…
Descriptors: Biomedicine, Medical Research, Disproportionate Representation, STEM Education
Rosenberg, Joshua M. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Data-rich activities provide an opportunity to develop core competencies in both science and mathematics identified in curricular standards. Perhaps even more importantly work with data puts learners in the position to use data to ask and answer questions, a potentially empowering capability. Research on work with data has focused on cognitive…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Data Analysis, Learner Engagement, Educational Practices
Rennie Center for Education Research & Policy, 2021
This year's report examines the critical role community plays in education. Integrating learning that takes place inside and outside of school has always been a powerful strategy to support student success, but it gained special relevance this year, as school closures made family and community members integral parts of students' daily learning.…
Descriptors: School Community Relationship, School Closing, Pandemics, COVID-19
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Tzou, Carrie; Meixi; Suárez, Enrique; Bell, Philip; LaBonte, Don; Starks, Elizabeth; Bang, Megan – Cognition and Instruction, 2016
This article presents findings from TechTales, a participatory design research (PDR) project where learning scientists, public library staff members, informal science educators, and staff members from Native-American-serving organizations collaborated to design a family-based robotics workshop that was grounded in storytelling. We approach this by…
Descriptors: Robotics, STEM Education, Computer Software, Participatory Research
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Prieto, Linda; Arreguín-Anderson, María G.; Yuen, Timothy T.; Ek, Lucila D.; Sánchez, Patricia; Machado-Casas, Margarita; García, Adriana – Interactive Learning Environments, 2016
This paper presents four projects in which mobile devices are used to support authentic learning in an afterschool technology club, "La Clase Mágica" (LCM@UTSA), designed to motivate underrepresented elementary school children in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. The implementation of mobile devices into our LCM@UTSA is…
Descriptors: Sociocultural Patterns, Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Teaching Methods
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Schnittka, Christine G.; Brandt, Carol B.; Jones, Brett D.; Evans, Michael A. – Advances in Engineering Education, 2012
Studio STEM adopts a design studio model to provide middle school youth with the opportunity to work with peers and college student facilitators after school in a relaxed, non-threatening, collaborative environment. Two informal learning educators guided overall instruction and pacing, but youth directed their own step-by-step activities by…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Engineering Education, STEM Education, Design