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  3. The (STEM)2...Network has increased the extent to which participants feel empowered to be change agents for STEM higher education reform and has increased collaboration across disciplines ... Participants were mo...

    Authors: Jessica Santangelo, Lawrence Hobbie, Jacqueline Lee, Michael Pullin, Eugenia Villa-Cuesta and Alison Hyslop
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2021 8:3
    Content type: Research Published on:

  6. Integrated science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education initiatives are becoming an increasingly popular approach to narrow the opportunity gap among underrepresented minority (i.e., Blac...

    Authors: Danielle R. Thomas and Karen H. Larwin
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2023 10:43
    Content type: Review Published on:

  8. Abundant research conducted in many countries has underlined the critical role of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) in developing human capital in fields important to a nation’s global c...

    Authors: Fatma Kayan-Fadlelmula, Abdellatif Sellami, Nada Abdelkader and Salman Umer
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2022 9:2
    Content type: Review Published on:

  10. The Nebraska Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics 4U (NE STEM 4U) program was initiated at the University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO) in 2013. NE STEM 4U is a student-run, faculty-led program facil...

    Authors: Christine E. Cutucache, Jamie L. Luhr, Kari L. Nelson, Neal F. Grandgenett and William E. Tapprich
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2016 3:6
    Content type: Short report Published on:

  11. Across the globe, there have been significant reforms to improve STEM education at all levels. A significant part of ... reform. While the responses and resilience of STEM teachers to educational reforms in secon...

    Authors: Pauline Mary Ross, E. Scanes, P. Poronnik, H. Coates and W. Locke
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2022 9:11
    Content type: Research Published on:

  13. This article systematically reviews how change theory has been used in STEM higher educational change between 1995 and 2019. Researchers are increasingly turning to theory to inform the design, implementation,...

    Authors: Daniel L. Reinholz, Isabel White and Tessa Andrews
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2021 8:37
    Content type: Review Published on:

    The Commentary to this article has been published in International Journal of STEM Education 2023 10:53

  15. Fostering students’ competence in applying interdisciplinary knowledge to solve problems has been recognized as an important and challenging issue globally. This is why STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, ...

    Authors: Darmawansah Darmawansah, Gwo-Jen Hwang, Mei-Rong Alice Chen and Jia-Cing Liang
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2023 10:12
    Content type: Review Published on:

  17. Teacher emotions are sometimes underplayed in the research field of teaching and teacher education. Also, teachers often undergo transformations in their professional identities during education reforms. Howev...

    Authors: Haozhe Jiang, Ke Wang, Xiaoqin Wang, Xiaohui Lei and Ziyi Huang
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2021 8:51
    Content type: Research Published on:

  18. Taking publicly funded projects in STEM education as a special lens, we aimed to learn about research and trends in STEM education. We identified a total of 127 projects funded by the Institute of Education Sc...

    Authors: Yeping Li, Ke Wang, Yu Xiao, Jeffrey E. Froyd and Sandra B. Nite
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2020 7:17
    Content type: Editorial Published on:

  20. The global urgency to improve STEM education may be driven by environmental and social ... to these challenges, the USA experienced massive STEM educational reforms in the last two decades. In practice, STEM educ...

    Authors: Todd R. Kelley and J. Geoff Knowles
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2016 3:11
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

  21. Computer-supported collaborative inquiry learning (CSCiL) has been proposed as a successful learning method to foster scientific literacy. This research aims to bridge the knowledge gap surrounding the role of...

    Authors: Amber Van Hoe, Joel Wiebe, Tijs Rotsaert and Tammy Schellens
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2024 11:3
    Content type: Research Published on:

  22. Many researchers have explored the impact of digital games on learning effects in different STEM subjects. The purpose of this meta-analysis ... to examine the effect of digital game-based STEM education on the l...

    Authors: Liang-Hui Wang, Bing Chen, Gwo-Jen Hwang, Jue-Qi Guan and Yun-Qing Wang
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2022 9:26
    Content type: Review Published on:

  23. Enacting STEM education reform is a complex task and there are a variety of approaches that might be selected by change agents. When working on an institutional change project to impact multiple parts of the S...

    Authors: S. Feola, J. E. Lewis, J. D. McAlpin, L. B. Prevost, J. Skvoretz, M. Stains, B. A. Couch, B. Earl, J. P. Ziker, A. K. Lane and S. E. Shadle
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2023 10:67
    Content type: Research Published on:

  26. Given the growing interest in, and relevance of, integrated approaches to STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) education, there is an urgent desire to understand the challenges and obstacle...

    Authors: David J. Shernoff, Suparna Sinha, Denise M. Bressler and Lynda Ginsburg
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2017 4:13
    Content type: Research Published on:

  28. Race and gender disparities remain a challenge in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education. We introduce campus racial climate as a framework for conceptualizing the role of racial mi...

    Authors: Meggan J. Lee, Jasmine D. Collins, Stacy Anne Harwood, Ruby Mendenhall and Margaret Browne Huntt
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2020 7:48
    Content type: Research Published on:

  29. The International Journal of STEM Education went through seven publication cycle years from August 2014 to July 2021. The journal’s performance has consistently reflected the rapid development in STEM education r...

    Authors: Yeping Li
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2021 8:58
    Content type: Editorial Published on:

  30. School education should improve science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) ability not only in science and mathematics ... being conducted without clear definitions and methods for STEM education. M...

    Authors: Chikahiko Yata, Tadashi Ohtani and Masataka Isobe
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2020 7:12
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

  32. The preparation of future scientists, the technical workforce, and informed citizens will require continued transformation to the ways we approach STEM teaching and learning. Undergraduate STEM education is ra...

    Authors: Adam J. Kleinschmit, Anne Rosenwald, Elizabeth F. Ryder, Sam Donovan, Barbara Murdoch, Nealy F. Grandgenett, Mark Pauley, Eric Triplett, William Tapprich and William Morgan
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2023 10:16
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

  34. In this study, we reviewed publications in the International Journal of STEM Education from 2014 to 2021 to gain a glimpse of STEM education research trends in terms of authorship and topics. We analyzed publicat...

    Authors: Yeping Li and Yu Xiao
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2022 9:62
    Content type: Editorial Published on:

  36. Billions of dollars are spent annually on grant-funded STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) education programs. These programs help students stay on track toward STEM careers when standard ...

    Authors: Robert J. Ruhf, Cody T. Williams, Megan Zelinsky and Lyssa Wilson Becho
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2022 9:30
    Content type: Research Published on:

  37. The analogy of the leaky pipeline has been used to describe STEM education, with lower student diversity from compulsory to post-compulsory education and beyond. Although extensive research has explored the vi...

    Authors: Billy Wong, Yuan-Li Tiffany Chiu, Órla Meadhbh Murray and Jo Horsburgh
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2022 9:51
    Content type: Research Published on:

  41. Calls to improve student learning and increase the number of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) college and university graduates assert the need for widespread adoption of evidence-based instruc...

    Authors: Susan E. Shadle, Anthony Marker and Brittnee Earl
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2017 4:8
    Content type: Research Published on:

  42. In this paper, we investigate the predictors for enrollment and success in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) programs in higher education. We develop a sequential logit model in which st...

    Authors: Melvin Vooren, Carla Haelermans, Wim Groot and Henriette Maassen van den Brink
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2022 9:1
    Content type: Research Published on:

  43. Digital educational games exhibit substantial promise in advancing STEM education. Nevertheless, the empirical evidence on both the efficacy of digital game-based learning and its designs in STEM education is ...

    Authors: Yang Gui, Zhihui Cai, Yajiao Yang, Lingyuan Kong, Xitao Fan and Robert H. Tai
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2023 10:36
    Content type: Research Published on:

  44. Despite increasing attention to STEM education worldwide, there is considerable uncertainty as to what constitutes STEM education and what it means in terms of curriculum and student outcomes. The purpose of t...

    Authors: Tamara D. Holmlund, Kristin Lesseig and David Slavit
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2018 5:32
    Content type: Research Published on:

  45. Despite the significant relationship between life satisfaction and education, less is known about the connection between life satisfaction and informal learning in the context of training and apprenticeship pr...

    Authors: Yung Chun, Jason Jabbari, Wenrui Huang and Carol Graham
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2024 11:6
    Content type: Research Published on:

  46. The ability to navigate obstacles and embrace iteration following failure is a hallmark of a scientific disposition and is hypothesized to increase students’ persistence in science, technology, engineering, and m...

    Authors: Meredith A. Henry, Shayla Shorter, Louise K. Charkoudian, Jennifer M. Heemstra, Benjamin Le and Lisa A. Corwin
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2021 8:43
    Content type: Research Published on:

  47. Science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) jobs are expected to make up a significant portion of the U.S. workforce. Unfortunately, the trend in retaining students in STEM majors has been going down. If...

    Authors: Joseph Appianing and Richard N. Van Eck
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2018 5:24
    Content type: Research Published on:

  49. Females are underrepresented in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) fields all over the world. To encourage more girls to choose STEM majors and careers, it is critical to increase their i...

    Authors: Ning Wang, Aik-Ling Tan, Xiaohong Zhou, Ke Liu, Feng Zeng and Jiong Xiang
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2023 10:59
    Content type: Research Published on:

  50. This systematic review identifies factors that prior studies have identified as supporting the academic success of Latinx transfer students, who matriculate at 2-year institutions with respect to earning a 4-y...

    Authors: Erica R. Winterer, Jeffrey E. Froyd, Maura Borrego, Julie P. Martin and Margaret Foster
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2020 7:34
    Content type: Review Published on:
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