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Angela Fitzgerald; Kate Davis; Tania Leach; Neil Martin; Shelley Dunlop; Ondine Jayne Bradbury – International Journal of Science Education, Part B: Communication and Public Engagement, 2025
STEM clubs, often located in extracurricular settings, are designed to promote engagement and enjoyment of STEM-related topics and concepts. Given the current policy landscape, a closer examination of STEM clubs is warranted. This paper explores the opportunities and challenges presented by these programs by drawing on interviews with nine STEM…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Clubs, STEM Education, Program Effectiveness
Sperling, Alissa Rose – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this mixed-methods study was to explore the impact of informal STEM education on underrepresented middle school girls. The study took place within the context of the EUREKA! summer program, a collaboration between Drexel University's Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering and Girls Inc. of Philadelphia and…
Descriptors: Informal Education, STEM Education, Disproportionate Representation, Middle School Students
Hite, Rebecca L.; Spott, Jessica L. – Journal of STEM Outreach, 2022
This study investigated how a STEM outreach program, focused on promoting adolescent girls' interests in STEM, augmented parents' and teachers' (adults) perceptions of doxa (socialization that enhances or stymies girls' STEM interests) after the event, at home and school, respectively. To this end, we provided participating adults with in-event…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Females, Teachers, Parents
Gabrielle Rabinowitz; Katherine S. Moore; Safinah Ali; Mark Weckel; Irene Lee; Preeti Gupta; Rachel Chaffee – International Journal of STEM Education, 2025
This study evaluates the effectiveness of a machine learning (ML) integrated science curriculum implemented within the Science Research Mentorship Program (SRMP) for high school youth at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) over 2 years. The 4-week curriculum focused on ML knowledge gain, skill development, and self-efficacy, particularly…
Descriptors: High School Students, Museums, Science Teaching Centers, Artificial Intelligence
Garcia, Patricia; Cadenas, Germán A.; Scott, Kimberly A. – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2023
In this study, we bring the concepts of sociopolitical development and intersectionality into conversation to examine how girls of color can develop a sense of agency that is grounded in an understanding of how race and gender impact their desired personal and STEM academic trajectories. Using a three-stage intersectional sociopolitical…
Descriptors: Students, Females, Minority Group Students, STEM Education
Lili Zhou – Afterschool Matters, 2025
Despite the success of informal STEM programs, one ongoing challenge is sustaining learners' interest beyond the programs' initial impact (Morris et al., 2019). Although some longitudinal studies suggest that such programs can have a lasting impact on girls in STEM (e.g., McCreedy & Dierking, 2013), further research is needed to identify the…
Descriptors: After School Programs, STEM Education, Females, Womens Education
Chynar Amanova; Judith Dymond – International Journal of Science Education, Part B: Communication and Public Engagement, 2025
It is important that teens are exposed to STEM education both through formal and informal learning opportunities. STEM cafés are an instance of the latter. Within an informal setting, teen science cafés can significantly enhance teens' view of the importance of science in their lives, positively influencing teens' understanding of science in the…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Informal Education, Adolescents, Relevance (Education)
Takkouch, Mariam; DeCoito, Isha – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2022
This paper explores the role of school gardens in nurturing secondary students' STEM skills and 21st century skills/global competencies. Predominantly, the affordances of garden-based learning are highlighted in fostering students' biodiversity and sustainability consciousness. The positive impact of school gardens as an informal learning setting…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Skill Development, Secondary School Students, Gardening
Davis, Kate; Fitzgerald, Angela; Power, Margaret; Leach, Tania; Martin, Neil; Piper, Stephanie; Singh, Rena; Dunlop, Shelley – Studies in Science Education, 2023
STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) clubs are gaining momentum as a means for engaging students in STEM-related activities. Despite this growth, there have been limited attempts to examine the conditions that inform practice in these informal educational spaces. This paper addresses that gap through a comprehensive literature…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Clubs, Student Organizations, Informal Education
Dixon-Payne, Deneen S. – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The underrepresentation of Black women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) is a long-standing issue. According to the National Science Foundation (2019), Black women hold less than 10% of STEM degrees, while only 2% work in STEM fields. These disparities can be attributed to structural inequities related to the STEM…
Descriptors: African American Students, Females, STEM Education, Disproportionate Representation
Zarestky, Jill; Vilen, Lauren; Short, Rachel A.; Struminger, Rhonda; Michelle Lawing, A. – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2022
An understanding of science concepts is important for living in modern society. Supporting adults' science learning can be particularly challenging because most adults no longer attend formal educational institutions where access and opportunities are facilitated by teachers and school-sponsored programs. Biological field stations (BFSs) are a…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Science Education, Science Teaching Centers, Scientific Literacy
Jin, Qingna – Education Sciences, 2021
There are a growing number of education programs in science and STEM education with the aim of improving educational outcomes for Indigenous students who have long been underrepresented in current education systems. The aim of this study is to systematically review empirical research from 2011 to 2020 that reported programs to support Indigenous…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Indigenous Populations, Elementary Secondary Education, Science Education
Viggiano, Greg; Davis, Hilarie; Ng, Carolyn; Sweeney, Mandy – Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching, 2020
The informal learning environment of the Museum of Science Fiction's "Escape Velocity" event offers an integration of science and science fiction in a variety of activities, talks, events, exhibits, and panels to further attendees' interest. This study examined the efficacy of this event as a learning experience through a survey of…
Descriptors: Museums, Science Fiction, Informal Education, STEM Education
Tran, Lynn Uyen; Gupta, Preeti; Bader, David – Journal of Museum Education, 2019
It is through the collective work of museum educators that an organization grows its social capital in its local community and beyond its physical footprint. Given the significant contributions of museum educators to an institution's outcomes, we argue for a shift in mindset on investing in their growth and development. We share our reasoning for…
Descriptors: Museums, Nonschool Educational Programs, Educational Development, Professional Development
Lajium, Denis; Seng, Chew Yen; Peng, Jasmine Tea Chin – Journal of Science and Mathematics Education in Southeast Asia, 2020
Purpose: This study was conducted to explore Malaysian students' views on an out-of-school time STEM programme that was organised at the national level. Methods: A Likert scale questionnaire was distributed to the student participants to obtain views and feedback on five aspects of the out-of-school time STEM programme in terms of their learning…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, STEM Education, After School Programs, Program Effectiveness
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