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  1. This study focuses on probing preservice technology teachers’ cognitive structures and how they construct engineering design in technology-learning activities and explores the effects of infusing an engineerin...

    Authors: Kuen-Yi Lin, Ying-Tien Wu, Yi-Ting Hsu and P. John Williams
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2021 8:1
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  3. Social network analysis (SNA) literature suggests that leaders should be well connected and can be identified through network measurements. Other literature suggests that identifying leaders ideally involves m...

    Authors: Alexis V. Knaub, Charles Henderson and Kathleen Quardokus Fisher
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2018 5:26
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  4. It is well established in the literature that active learning instruction in introductory STEM courses results in many desired student outcomes. Yet, regular use of high-quality active learning is not the norm...

    Authors: Alexandra C. Lau, Charles Henderson, Marilyne Stains, Melissa Dancy, Christian Merino, Naneh Apkarian, Jeffrey R. Raker and Estrella Johnson
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2024 11:10
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  5. STEM fields are instrumental in increasing the technological and innovative capacity of the economy. As women are underrepresented in the STEM workforce, diverse strategies have been implemented to boost their...

    Authors: María Paola Sevilla, Daniela Luengo-Aravena and Mauricio Farías
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2023 10:58
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  6. There is inconclusive evidence on the ability of scientific research in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education to scale-up from one context to another and ultimately become institut...

    Authors: Norma López, Demetri L. Morgan, Quortne R. Hutchings and Kendrick Davis
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2022 9:39
    Content type: Review Published on:

  8. Women and ethnic minorities have historically been underrepresented in some STEM fields. It is therefore important to understand the factors influencing students’ persistence in STEM fields, and what STEM belo...

    Authors: Gulsah Dost
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2024 11:12
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  9. China has great student participation in STEM education. Chinese society has a progressive and positive attitude towards STEM as it is considered to provide more opportunities in life. Teachers play a vital ro...

    Authors: Yan Dong, Jing Wang, Yunying Yang and Premnadh M. Kurup
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2020 7:47
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  10. The CISL program provides an example of significant effort sustained over several years to systematically improve the quality and culture of undergraduate education in a large research-intensive Hispanic Serving ...

    Authors: Sreyasi Biswas, Rocio Benabentos, Eric Brewe, Geoff Potvin, Julian Edward, Marcy Kravec and Laird Kramer
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2022 9:36
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  11. Previous research has indicated that placing emphasis on communal goals within the field of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education can yield beneficial learning outcomes. However, t...

    Authors: Ma. Jenina N. Nalipay, Biyun Huang, Morris S. Y. Jong, Ching Sing Chai and Ronnel B. King
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2024 11:17
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  13. This meta-analysis examined the effectiveness of teacher professional development (PD) training on improving in-service STEM teachers’ self-efficacy in the K-12 teaching context. Twenty-one articles yielded 48...

    Authors: Xuan Zhou, Lina Shu, Zhihong Xu and Yolanda Padrón
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2023 10:37
    Content type: Review Published on:

  14. The Classroom Observation Project employs direct observations of geoscience teaching across the USA using the Reformed Teaching Observation Protocol (RTOP) to quantify the use of reformed teaching practices. W...

    Authors: Rachel Teasdale, Katherine Ryker, Karen Viskupic, C. Doug Czajka and Cathryn Manduca
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2020 7:56
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  15. The overarching research questions addressed how professional development in engineering education affected secondary STEM teachers’ beliefs about the value of using ... in their courses, perceived obstacles to e...

    Authors: Kimberly B. Christian, Angela M. Kelly and Mónica F. Bugallo
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2021 8:21
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  16. Qualitative interviewing is a common tool that has been utilized by science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education researchers to explore and describe the experiences of students, educators...

    Authors: Ashley A. Rowland, Dimitri R. Dounas-Frazer, Laura Ríos, H. J. Lewandowski and Lisa A. Corwin
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2019 6:32
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

  17. This commentary was stimulated by Yeping Li’s first editorial (2014) citing one of the journal’s goals as adding multidisciplinary perspectives to current studies of single disciplines comprising the focus of ...

    Authors: Lyn D. English
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2016 3:3
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

  18. Universal Design for Learning is not widely used in postsecondary STEM education. The purpose of this literature review is to synthesize the empirical literature using Universal Design for Learning in postseco...

    Authors: Jillian Schreffler, Eleazar Vasquez III, Jacquelyn Chini and Westley James
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2019 6:8
    Content type: Review Published on:

  19. Teachers can have a significant impact on student interest and learning in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) subjects and careers. Teacher self-efficacy can also significantly affect student le...

    Authors: Todd R. Kelley, J. Geoffery Knowles, Jeffrey D. Holland and Jung Han
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2020 7:14
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  20. Although a large body of research has identified challenges faced by women in STEM fields and strategies to improve the experience for women in STEM, little of this research has examined which strategies under...

    Authors: Gili Freedman, Melanie C. Green, Mia Kussman, Mason Drusano and Melissa M. Moore
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2023 10:20
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  21. Understanding cultural diversity in STEM education is important for inclusivity and teaching STEM literacy for all. We explore diversity at a micro-cultural classroom level involving students’ emotional experi...

    Authors: James P. Davis, Juan Du, Jia-Hui Tang, Lu Qiao, Yan-Qiu Liu and Feng-Kuang Chiang
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2020 7:44
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  22. As higher education institutions strive to effectively support an increasingly diverse student body, they will be called upon to provide their faculty with tools to teach more inclusively, especially in scienc...

    Authors: Erin Sanders O’Leary, Casey Shapiro, Shannon Toma, Hannah Whang Sayson, Marc Levis-Fitzgerald, Tracy Johnson and Victoria L. Sork
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2020 7:32
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  23. To inform STEM education for benefiting emerging bilingual (EB) and English fluent (EF) students, the present study evaluated the order effects of integrating science and arts within a large-scale, ongoing eff...

    Authors: Bradley S. Hughes, Michael W. Corrigan, Douglas Grove, Sage B. Andersen and Joseph T. Wong
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2022 9:58
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  24. The findings provide important implications for efforts to improve girls’ access to STEM education through curriculum enrichment and out-of-school ... time programs to bridge the gender gap in STEM. Access to fem...

    Authors: Randolph C. H. Chan
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2022 9:37
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  25. We introduce a conceptual framework of K-12 STEM literacy that rightfully and intentionally positions each and every student, particularly minoritized groups, as belonging in STEM. In order to conceptualize th...

    Authors: Christa Jackson, Margaret J. Mohr-Schroeder, Sarah B. Bush, Cathrine Maiorca, Thomas Roberts, Caitlyn Yost and Abigail Fowler
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2021 8:38
    Content type: Review Published on:

  26. Few tools or rubrics exist to assess the quality of integrated STEM curricula, and existing tools focus on checklists of characteristics of integrated STEM. While such instruments provide important information...

    Authors: Gillian H. Roehrig, Emily A. Dare, Elizabeth Ring-Whalen and Jeanna R. Wieselmann
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2021 8:2
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  27. Team-based instructional change is a promising model for improving undergraduate STEM instruction. Teams are more likely to produce ... knowledge of how teams in the context of STEM higher education should work t...

    Authors: Diana Sachmpazidi, Alice Olmstead, Amreen Nasim Thompson, Charles Henderson and Andrea Beach
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2021 8:15
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  28. Previous literature has examined the relationship between high school students’ postsecondary STEM major choices and their prior interest and perceived ability in mathematics. Yet, we have limited understandin...

    Authors: Teng Zhao and Lara Perez-Felkner
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2022 9:42
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  29. As K-12 STEM education moves toward the integrated application of mathematics and science concepts in collaborative and complex real-world problem solving, there is a commensurate need to redefine what it mean...

    Authors: Terrie M. Galanti and Nancy Holincheck
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2022 9:43
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

  30. There is a worldwide trend to include engineering design in high school curricula as a bridge course to higher-level STEM education and to increase high school students’ interest in STEM fields. This study use...

    Authors: Yu-Hung Chien, Chia-Yu Liu, Shaio-Chung Chan and Yu-Shan Chang
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2023 10:10
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  31. Women and ethnic minorities remain underrepresented in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields. The goal of this pilot study is to better understand the beliefs and experiences of underreprese...

    Authors: Katherine Kricorian, Michelle Seu, Daniel Lopez, Elsie Ureta and Ozlem Equils
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2020 7:16
    Content type: Short report Published on:

  32. Colleges across the United States have shown a commitment to advancing diversity in the STEM fields by creating programs aimed at improving outcomes of women and/or racially and ... of singular college programs r...

    Authors: Olivia Palid, Sarah Cashdollar, Sarah Deangelo, Chu Chu and Meg Bates
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2023 10:2
    Content type: Review Published on:

  33. We used an opportunity gap framework to analyze the pathways through which students enter into and depart from science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) degrees in an R1 higher education institu...

    Authors: Robin A. Costello, Shima Salehi, Cissy J. Ballen and Eric Burkholder
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2023 10:46
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  34. Process skills such as critical thinking and information processing are commonly stated outcomes for STEM undergraduate degree programs, but instructors often do not explicitly assess these skills in their cou...

    Authors: Gil Reynders, Juliette Lantz, Suzanne M. Ruder, Courtney L. Stanford and Renée S. Cole
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2020 7:9
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  35. Despite the diverse student population in the USA, the labor force in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) does not reflect this reality. While restrictive messages about who belongs in STE...

    Authors: Ursula Nguyen and Catherine Riegle-Crumb
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2021 8:28
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  36. STEM identity has been shown to have a powerful role in an individual’s success in educational environments, as well as on their career goals and trajectories. Historically, however, STEM identity formation fo...

    Authors: Alison Singer, Georgina Montgomery and Shannon Schmoll
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2020 7:57
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  37. Strong consensus exists on the need to expand participation of URM doctoral students in STEM fields, to increase their retention, reduce their average time to degree, and provide these students with the prepar...

    Authors: Rosana G. Moreira, Karen Butler-Purry, Adrienne Carter-Sowell, Shannon Walton, Isah V. Juranek, Linda Challoo, Gloria Regisford, Richard Coffin and Angela Spaulding
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2019 6:34
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  38. Inclusive STEM (traditionally known to stand for “Science, ... emerging across the country as a mechanism for improving STEM education and getting more and diverse students into STEM majors and careers. However, ...

    Authors: Melanie LaForce, Elizabeth Noble, Heather King, Jeanne Century, Courtney Blackwell, Sandra Holt, Ahmed Ibrahim and Stephanie Loo
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2016 3:21
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  39. An instructor’s conceptions of teaching and learning contribute to the establishment of learning environments that may benefit or hinder student learning. Previous studies have defined the continuum of teachin...

    Authors: Veronika Rozhenkova, Lauren Snow, Brian K. Sato, Stanley M. Lo and Natascha Trellinger Buswell
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2023 10:51
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  40. The studies of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) career interests have progressed substantially over the recent years. However, the influence of career awareness on STEM career interests...

    Authors: Heli Jiang, Lijin Zhang and Wenlan Zhang
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2024 11:22
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  42. Supplemental instruction (SI) is a well-established mode of direct academic support, used in a wide variety of courses. Some reports have indicated that SI and similar peer-led academic support models particul...

    Authors: Chantelle Anfuso, Judy Awong-Taylor, Jamye Curry Savage, Cynthia Johnson, Tirza Leader, Katherine Pinzon, Benjamin Shepler and Cindy Achat-Mendes
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2022 9:55
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  43. Investigations into drivers and barriers to the uptake of learner-centered instructional practices in STEM courses have identified the climate within a department as a potential influential factor. However, fe...

    Authors: Lu Shi and Marilyne Stains
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2021 8:44
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  45. Repeated calls to diversify the population of students earning undergraduate degrees in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields have noted the greater diversity of community college stu...

    Authors: DeeDee Allen, Melissa Dancy, Elizabeth Stearns, Roslyn Mickelson and Martha Bottia
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2022 9:20
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  46. As technology moves rapidly forward and our world becomes more interconnected, we are seeing increases in the complexity and challenge associated with scientific problems. More than ever before, scientists wil...

    Authors: Meredith A. Henry, Shayla Shorter, Louise K. Charkoudian, Jennifer M. Heemstra, Benjamin Le and Lisa A. Corwin
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2022 9:17
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  47. Increasing diversity in STEM disciplines has been a goal at scientific institutions for many decades. Black representation in STEM, however, has remained critically low at all levels (high school, undergraduat...

    Authors: Jarrad Hampton-Marcell, Tasia Bryson, Jeffrey Larson, Taylor Childers, Spencer Pasero, Cortez Watkins, Thomas Reed, Dorletta Flucas-Payton and Michael E. Papka
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2023 10:4
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

  48. State afterschool networks across the US are engaged in system-building efforts to improve the quality of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM)-focused afterschool programming. This study examined ...

    Authors: Patricia J. Allen, Rong Chang, Britt K. Gorrall, Luke Waggenspack, Eriko Fukuda, Todd D. Little and Gil G. Noam
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2019 6:37
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  49. 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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  50. Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) educators and stakeholders in South Africa are interested in the ways STEM students make their career decisions because of the shortages in these critic...

    Authors: Ethel Ndidiamaka Abe and Vitallis Chikoko
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2020 7:60
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