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  1. Professional development offerings assist K–12 educators in addressing new and evolving classroom dynamics, circumstances, and situations. With the emerging demands of an increasingly science, technology, engi...

    Authors: S. Li, J. V. Ernst and T. O. Williams
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2015 2:20
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    The Erratum to this article has been published in International Journal of STEM Education 2016 3:2

  2. A substantial monetary investment supports STEM doctoral students in the United States (U.S.) through a variety of funding mechanisms (e.g., fellowships, research, and teaching assistantships). However, we hav...

    Authors: Dustin Grote, Anita Patrick, Chelsea Lyles, David Knight, Maura Borrego and Abdulrahman Alsharif
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2021 8:50
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  3. Unplugged programming is proved to be an effective means to foster the learner-centered programming learning. In addition to the final tests, learners’ programming knowledge, skills, and capacities are primari...

    Authors: Dan Sun, Fan Ouyang, Yan Li and Caifeng Zhu
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2021 8:54
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  4. Professional schools, such as schools of pharmacy, are rarely involved with promoting STEM interests among secondary school students. To address this shortcoming, the Young Innovators Program (YIP) was create...

    Authors: Adam D. Friedman, Carlos R. Melendez, Antonio A. Bush, Samuel K. Lai and Jacqueline E. McLaughlin
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2017 4:17
    Content type: Short report Published on:

  5. Identification and retention of effective teachers in STEM education play cardinal roles in teacher recruitment exercises worldwide. Studies on factors that characterize effective teachers have therefore gaine...

    Authors: Yusuf F. Zakariya
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2020 7:10
    Content type: Research Published on:

  6. Faculty Learning Communities (FLCs) and Faculty Online Learning Communities (FOLCs) are ways to support STEM faculty implementing research-based curricula. In these communities, faculty facilitators take on th...

    Authors: Makenna M. Martin, Fred Goldberg, Michael McKean, Edward Price and Chandra Turpen
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2022 9:56
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  7. Due to the rising demands for a Canadian workforce with science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM)-related education, there is a need to increase youth engagement in STEM education and programming. Rese...

    Authors: Eugenia Duodu, Jessica Noble, Yusuf Yusuf, Camilo Garay and Corliss Bean
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2017 4:20
    Content type: Short report Published on:

  8. Is exposing students to role models an effective tool for diversifying science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)? So far, the evidence for this claim is mixed. Here, we set out to identify syste...

    Authors: Jessica R. Gladstone and Andrei Cimpian
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2021 8:59
    Content type: Review Published on:

  9. Every year, significant effort and resources are expended around the world to develop innovative instructional strategies and materials to improve undergraduate Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematic...

    Authors: Courtney Stanford, Renée Cole, Jeff Froyd, Debra Friedrichsen, Raina Khatri and Charles Henderson
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2016 3:1
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  10. Teaching-focused faculty positions have grown in popularity in higher education and provide novel opportunities to transform undergraduate science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education. Th...

    Authors: Ashley N. Harlow, Natascha T. Buswell, Stanley M. Lo and Brian K. Sato
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2022 9:54
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  11. While dyadic faculty–mentored relationship research currently saturates the mentoring literature, recent developments suggest the need for a broader consideration of a student's mentor network. Research taking...

    Authors: Rachelle Pedersen, Anna Woodcock, P. Wesley Schultz and Paul R. Hernandez
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2024 11:21
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  12. A growing part of the efforts to promote student engagement and success in undergraduate STEM are the family of Student Support and Outreach Programs (SSOPs), which task undergraduate students with providing s...

    Authors: Hannah Huvard, Robert M. Talbot, Hillary Mason, Amreen Nasim Thompson, Michael Ferrara and Bryan Wee
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2020 7:31
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  13. A sample of 1448 students in grades 7 and 9 was drawn from public schools in Atlantic Canada to explore students’ knowledge of science and mathematics requirements for science, technology, engineering, and mat...

    Authors: Karen A. Blotnicky, Tamara Franz-Odendaal, Frederick French and Phillip Joy
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2018 5:22
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  14. There has been substantial research undertaken on the integration of computational thinking (CT) in K-12 mathematics education in recent years, particularly since 2018 when relevant systematic reviews were con...

    Authors: Huiyan Ye, Biyao Liang, Oi-Lam Ng and Ching Sing Chai
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2023 10:3
    Content type: Review Published on:

  17. Teachers’ beliefs play an important role in how teachers think about how students learn, and how content should be organized and taught. Integrated STEM is pushing the boundaries of some of the traditional ass...

    Authors: Hui-Hui Wang, Mingla Charoenmuang, Neil A. Knobloch and Roger L. Tormoehlen
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2020 7:3
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  18. Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education is becoming more prevalent at the elementary level, and there has been a push to focus on the integration between the STEM disciplines. Resear...

    Authors: Anne T. Estapa and Kristina M. Tank
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2017 4:6
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  19. Women and students of color are widely underrepresented in the majority of STEM fields. In order to investigate this underrepresentation, we interviewed over 200 male and female college seniors, primarily wome...

    Authors: Katherine Rainey, Melissa Dancy, Roslyn Mickelson, Elizabeth Stearns and Stephanie Moller
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2019 6:6
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  20. Informal science activities are critical for supporting long-term learning in STEM fields. However, little is known about the kinds of activities children and their families engage in outside of formal setting...

    Authors: Bradley J. Morris, Whitney Owens, Kirsten Ellenbogen, Sibel Erduran and John Dunlosky
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2019 6:40
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  21. Research illustrates that student motivations influence learning engagement, persistence, and achievement in powerful ways and that positive motivations are linked to deeper learning, critical thinking, pro-so...

    Authors: Jonathan D. Stolk, Michael D. Gross and Yevgeniya V. Zastavker
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2021 8:35
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  23. Evidence-based teaching, such as active learning, is associated with increases in student learning and engagement. Although many faculty are beginning to adopt innovative practices, traditional lecture-based t...

    Authors: Meghan E. Bathgate, Oriana R. Aragón, Andrew J. Cavanagh, Jonathan K. Waterhouse, Jennifer Frederick and Mark J. Graham
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2019 6:11
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  24. The National Science Foundation Research Initiation in Engineering Formation (RIEF) program aims to increase research capacity in the field by providing funding for technical engineering faculty to learn to co...

    Authors: Julie P. Martin, Deepthi E. Suresh and Paul A. Jensen
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2024 11:13
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  25. The Moodle Learning Management System (LMS) is widely used in online teaching and learning, especially in STEM education. However, educational research on using Moodle ... and (c) innovative and effective methods...

    Authors: Sithara H. P. W. Gamage, Jennifer R. Ayres and Monica B. Behrend
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2022 9:9
    Content type: Review Published on:

  26. Large introductory STEM courses historically have high failure rates, and failing such courses often leads students to change majors or even drop out of college. Instructional innovations such as the Learning ...

    Authors: Jessica L. Alzen, Laurie S. Langdon and Valerie K. Otero
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2018 5:56
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  27. This study is about teachers’ collective activity during the development and initial year of a science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)-focused school in the USA. The target school of this stud...

    Authors: David Slavit, Tamara Holmlund Nelson and Kristin Lesseig
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2016 3:7
    Content type: Research Published on:

  28. Unplugged activities as a low-cost solution to foster computational thinking (CT) skills seem to be a trend in recent years. However, current evidence of the effectiveness of unplugged activities in promoting stu...

    Authors: Peng Chen, Dong Yang, Ahmed Hosny Saleh Metwally, Jari Lavonen and Xiao Wang
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2023 10:47
    Content type: Review Published on:

  29. Despite the recent emphasis on technology and engineering in early childhood education, the importance of teaching relevant concepts in early education has been underappreciated in South Korea. This study exam...

    Authors: Jihyun Sung, Ji Young Lee and Hui Young Chun
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2023 10:26
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  31. With the increased attention on the need to retain students within STEM majors, it is important for STEM instructors to adopt evidence-based instructional practices that are student-centric and employ active l...

    Authors: Jonathan H. Tomkin, Shereen O. Beilstein, Jason W. Morphew and Geoffrey L. Herman
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2019 6:1
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  32. Continuous calls for reform in science education emphasize the need to provide science experiences in lower-division courses to improve the retention of STEM majors and to develop science literacy and STEM skills...

    Authors: X. Ben Wu, Carolyn Sandoval, Stephanie Knight, Xavier Jaime, Maria Macik and Jane F. Schielack
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2021 8:31
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  34. We report the results of an undergraduate course in astrophotography designed to engage non-STEM majors in the natural sciences to train future amateur astronomers and citizen scientists. Over 200,000 students...

    Authors: Mario A. De Leo–Winkler, Gabriela Canalizo and Gillian Wilson
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2016 3:20
    Content type: SHORT REPORT Published on:

  35. The Learning Assistant (LA) model with its subsequent support and training has evidenced significant gains for undergraduate STEM learning and persistence, especially in high-stakes courses like Calculus. Yet,...

    Authors: R. L. Hite, G. Childers, J. Gottlieb, R. Velasco, L. Johnson, G. B. Williams, K. Griffith and J. Dwyer
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2021 8:55
    Content type: Research Published on:

  36. There are different teaching methods and learning content in the academic field of mathematics between school and university. Many students fail in their studies when the proportion of mathematics is high. Add...

    Authors: Steffen Wild and Christoph Neef
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2023 10:32
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  37. The constructs of interest and motivation are often identified as factors that contribute to the persistence of undergraduate college women in physics, mathematics, engineering, engineering technology, and com...

    Authors: Kimberly Grau Talley and Araceli Martinez Ortiz
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2017 4:5
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  39. 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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  40. Differences in post-secondary academic outcomes along dimensions of gender, race/ethnicity, and socioeconomic status are a major concern. Few studies have considered differences in patterns of academic outcome...

    Authors: Lorraine Blatt, Christian D. Schunn, Elizabeth Votruba-Drzal and Benjamin Margolin Rottman
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2020 7:58
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  41. This study presents two teacher design teams (TDTs) during a professional development experience centered on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)-integrated curriculum development. The main...

    Authors: Justin R. McFadden and Gillian H. Roehrig
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2017 4:21
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  42. This study presents the findings from a systematic review of literature (1990–2020) of mathematics and science transition from primary to secondary education. The purpose of this review was to explore factors ...

    Authors: Tandeep Kaur, Eilish McLoughlin and Paul Grimes
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2022 9:13
    Content type: Review Published on:

  43. Computational approaches in STEM foster creative extrapolations of ideas that extend the bounds of human perception, processing, and sense-making. Inviting teachers to explore computational approaches in STEM ...

    Authors: Brian E. Gravel, Amon Millner, Eli Tucker-Raymond, Maria C. Olivares and Aditi Wagh
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2022 9:60
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  44. Active learning used in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) courses has been shown to improve student outcomes. Nevertheless, traditional lecture-orientated approaches endure in these cour...

    Authors: Brandon J. Yik, Jeffrey R. Raker, Naneh Apkarian, Marilyne Stains, Charles Henderson, Melissa H. Dancy and Estrella Johnson
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2022 9:15
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  46. The University of California system has a novel tenure-track education-focused faculty position called Lecturer with Security of Employment (working titles: Teaching Professor or Professor of Teaching). We foc...

    Authors: Kameryn Denaro, Petra Kranzfelder, Melinda T. Owens, Brian Sato, Austin L. Zuckerman, Rebecca A. Hardesty, Adriana Signorini, Andrea Aebersold, Mayank Verma and Stanley M. Lo
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2022 9:49
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  47. This study is about Abu Dhabi high school students’ interest in science in different contexts. The survey was conducted in connection with the international project, the Relevance of Science Education (ROSE). ...

    Authors: Masood Badri, Ali Alnuaimi, Jihad Mohaidat, Asma Al Rashedi, Guang Yang and Karima Al Mazroui
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2016 3:12
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  48. Despite the evidence supporting the effectiveness of active learning in undergraduate STEM courses, the adoption of active learning has been slow. One barrier to adoption is instructors’ concerns about student...

    Authors: Kevin A. Nguyen, Maura Borrego, Cynthia J. Finelli, Matt DeMonbrun, Caroline Crockett, Sneha Tharayil, Prateek Shekhar, Cynthia Waters and Robyn Rosenberg
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2021 8:9
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  49. Early exposure to Computer Science (CS) and Computational Thinking (CT) for all is critical to broaden participation and promote equity in the field. But how does the introduction of CS and CT into primary sch...

    Authors: Laila El-Hamamsy, Barbara Bruno, Catherine Audrin, Morgane Chevalier, Sunny Avry, Jessica Dehler Zufferey and Francesco Mondada
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2023 10:60
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    The Correction to this article has been published in International Journal of STEM Education 2023 10:63

  50. In the US, bioscience programs now often have more women than men who earn degrees at all levels. Despite this, evidence still exists for gender inequity in bioscience and medical fields. For example, women wi...

    Authors: Alysa Malespina and Chandralekha Singh
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2023 10:13
    Content type: Research Published on:
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