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  1. Collecting data on instructional practices is an important step in planning and enacting meaningful initiatives to improve undergraduate science instruction. Self-report survey instruments are one of the most ...

    Authors: Cody T. Williams, Emily M. Walter, Charles Henderson and Andrea L. Beach
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2015 2:18
    Content type: Research Published on:

  2. Bioinformatics—the use of computers in biology—is of major and increasing importance to biological sciences and medicine. We conducted a preliminary investigation of the value of bringing practical, university...

    Authors: Daniel Barker, Rosanna G. Alderson, James L. McDonagh, Heleen Plaisier, Muriel M. Comrie, Leigh Duncan, Gavin T. P. Muirhead and Stuart D. Sweeney
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2015 2:17
    Content type: Short report Published on:

  3. This article reports on an analysis of errors that were displayed by students who studied mathematics in Chemical Engineering in derivatives of mostly trigonometric functions. The poor performance of these stu...

    Authors: Sibawu Witness Siyepu
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2015 2:16
    Content type: Short report Published on:

  4. The expanded use of online and blended learning programs in K-12 STEM education has led researchers to propose design principles for effective e-learning systems. Much of this research has focused on the impac...

    Authors: Kevin Mulqueeny, Victor Kostyuk, Ryan S. Baker and Jaclyn Ocumpaugh
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2015 2:15
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  6. Research at the secondary and postsecondary levels has clearly demonstrated the critical role that individual and contextual characteristics play in instructors’ decision to adopt educational innovations. Alth...

    Authors: Travis J Lund and Marilyne Stains
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2015 2:13
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  8. The use of visual representations (i.e., photographs, diagrams, models) has been part of science, and their use makes it possible for scientists to interact with and represent complex phenomena, not observable...

    Authors: Maria Evagorou, Sibel Erduran and Terhi Mäntylä
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2015 2:11
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  9. This paper reports on a study examining teachers’ perceptions of students they observed in an animated episode and who were engaged in the work of making conjectures in a geometry classroom. We examined eight ...

    Authors: Wendy R Aaron and Patricio G Herbst
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2015 2:10
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  10. Design and science inquiry are intertwined during engineering practice. In this study, we examined the relationship between design behaviors and scientific explanations. Data on student design processes were c...

    Authors: Şenay Purzer, Molly Hathaway Goldstein, Robin S Adams, Charles Xie and Saeid Nourian
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2015 2:9
    Content type: Research Published on:

  11. The process of problem solving is difficult for students; thus, mathematics educators have made multiple attempts to seek ways of making this process more accessible to learners. The purpose of this study was ...

    Authors: Andrzej Sokolowski, Yeping Li and Victor Willson
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2015 2:8
    Content type: Research Published on:

  12. This auto-ethnographic study describes research conducted in a science teacher education program at a state university in Turkey, where I had taught the ‘laboratory applications’ course for the four previous y...

    Authors: Deniz Saribas and Gaye Defne Ceyhan
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2015 2:7
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  14. The primary objective of this paper is to provide a review of research on argumentation in science education based on publications from 1998 to 2014 in three science education journals. In recent years, the te...

    Authors: Sibel Erduran, Yasemin Ozdem and Jee-Young Park
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2015 2:5
    Content type: Research Published on:

  15. Robot-math is a term used to describe mathematics instruction centered on engineering, particularly robotics. This type of instruction seeks first to make the mathematics skills useful for robotics-centered ch...

    Authors: Louis Alfieri, Ross Higashi, Robin Shoop and Christian D Schunn
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2015 2:4
    Content type: Short report Published on:

  17. In this paper, we investigate the relationship between theory and design in the context of creating digital games to support children's development of scientific expertise.

    Authors: Douglas B Clark, Pratim Sengupta, Corey E Brady, Mario M Martinez-Garza and Stephen S Killingsworth
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2015 2:2
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  18. The newly formed discipline of engineering education is addressing the need to (a) enhance STEM education for precollege students and (b) identify optimum ways to introduce engineering content starting, perhap...

    Authors: Aikaterini Bagiati, So Yoon Yoon, Demetra Evangelou, Alejandra Magana, Garene Kaloustian and Jiabin Zhu
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2015 2:1
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  19. The shift from science inquiry to science practices as recommended in the US reports A Framework for K-12 Science Education: Practices, Crosscutting Concepts, and Core Ideas and the Next Generation Science Standa...

    Authors: Richard A Duschl and Rodger W Bybee
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2014 1:12
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

  21. Many innovative teaching strategies have been developed under the assumption that documenting successful student learning outcomes at the development site is enough to spread the innovation successfully to sec...

    Authors: Kathleen T Foote, Xaver Neumeyer, Charles Henderson, Melissa H Dancy and Robert J Beichner
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2014 1:10
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  22. The knowledge that is required for teaching includes subject matter content knowledge (CK) and pedagogical content knowledge (PCK). Although CK and PCK are distinct components of the teachers’ knowledge, the d...

    Authors: Ronit Rozenszajn and Anat Yarden
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2014 1:11
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  23. The field of STEM education is increasingly focusing on processes of individual, cultural, and organization-level change in postsecondary institutions, yet current approaches tend to focus on individual levera...

    Authors: Matthew T Hora and Anne-Barrie Hunter
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2014 1:8
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  24. Creating coherence between school subjects mathematics and science and making these school subjects meaningful are still topical challenges. This study investigates how students make meaningful connections bet...

    Authors: Adri Dierdorp, Arthur Bakker, Jan A van Maanen and Harrie MC Eijkelhof
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2014 1:9
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  25. During the middle school years, students frequently show significant declines in motivation toward school in general and mathematics in particular. One way in which researchers have sought to spark students’ i...

    Authors: Jon R Star, Jason A Chen, Megan W Taylor, Kelley Durkin, Chris Dede and Theodore Chao
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2014 1:7
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  26. Given the continued need to educate the public on both the meteorological and engineering hazards posed by the severe winds of a tornado, an interdisciplinary science, technology, engineering, and mathematics ...

    Authors: Bradford S Barrett, Angela L Moran and John E Woods
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2014 1:6
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