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  1. This paper compares the effects of two classroom-based technology-enhanced teaching interventions, conducted in two schools in sixth (age 11–12) grade. In one school, the intervention involves the use of a cla...

    Authors: Oi-Lam Ng, Lian Shi and Fridolin Ting
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2020 7:50
    Content type: Research Published on:

  2. Studies comparing the effect of dynamic and static visualization suggest a predominantly positive effect of dynamic visualization. However, the results of individual comparisons are highly heterogeneous. In th...

    Authors: Milada Teplá, Pavel Teplý and Petr Šmejkal
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2022 9:65
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  4. This study describes how teachers’ nature of science (NOS) views changed throughout an innovative Continuing Professional Development (CPD) program that provided sustained support throughout the process in a c...

    Authors: Eda Erdas Kartal, William W. Cobern, Nihal Dogan, Serhat Irez, Gultekin Cakmakci and Yalcin Yalaki
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2018 5:30
    Content type: Research Published on:

  5. Many students solving quantitative problems in science struggle to apply mathematical instruction they have received to novel problems. The few students who succeed often draw on both their mathematical unders...

    Authors: Fang Fang Zhao, Linh Chau and Anita Schuchardt
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2021 8:26
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  7. In college science laboratory and discussion sections, student-centered active learning strategies have been implemented to improve student learning outcomes and experiences. Research has shown that active lea...

    Authors: Tong Wan, Constance M. Doty, Ashley A. Geraets, Erin K. H. Saitta and Jacquelyn J. Chini
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2023 10:5
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  8. Capturing measures of students’ attitudes toward science has long been a focus within the field of science education. The resulting interest has led to the development of many instruments over the years. There...

    Authors: Robert H. Tai, Ji Hoon Ryoo, Angela Skeeles-Worley, Katherine P. Dabney, John T. Almarode and Adam V. Maltese
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2022 9:12
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  9. Incorporating research-based instructional strategies (RBISs) into college classrooms is essential for improving learning outcomes. However, the rate of implementation of new strategies is quite low. The devel...

    Authors: Adriana Corrales, Fred Goldberg, Edward Price and Chandra Turpen
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2020 7:21
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  10. The characteristics of the classroom environment play an important role in shaping teaching practices and supporting research-based instructional strategies. One instructional strategy that has reimagined the ...

    Authors: Alexis V. Knaub, Kathleen T. Foote, Charles Henderson, Melissa Dancy and Robert J. Beichner
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2016 3:8
    Content type: Research Published on:

  11. There is a lack of students enrolling in upper secondary school physics courses. In addition, many students discontinue the physics track, causing a lack of applicants for university-level science, technology,...

    Authors: Sanna Lehtamo, Kalle Juuti, Janna Inkinen and Jari Lavonen
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2018 5:25
    Content type: Short report Published on:

  12. The gap between theory and teachers’ practice is a barrier to education improvement. There is therefore an ongoing need to understand teachers’ thinking and find new ways to meaningfully relate theory and prac...

    Authors: Yael Furman Shaharabani and Anat Yarden
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2019 6:21
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  13. Scientific ideas are often expressed as mathematical equations. Understanding the ideas contained within these equations requires making sense of both the embedded mathematics knowledge and scientific knowledg...

    Authors: FangFang Zhao and Anita Schuchardt
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2021 8:10
    Content type: Review Published on:

  14. The motivational climate within a course has been shown to be an important predictor of students’ engagement and course ratings. Because little is known about how students’ perceptions of the motivational clim...

    Authors: Brett D. Jones, Margaret Ellis, Fei Gu and Hande Fenerci
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2023 10:65
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  15. There is a critical need for evidence-based metacognition instruction models with an ease of implementation. Three issues involved in advancing the implementation and assessment of metacognitive interventions ...

    Authors: Sonja Gamby and Christopher F. Bauer
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2022 9:61
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  16. Active learning pedagogy has recently received a great deal of attention, and many universities have attempted to create student-centered learning environments to improve students’ academic success. The purpos...

    Authors: Hyun Jin Cho, Michael R. Melloch and Chantal Levesque-Bristol
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2021 8:32
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  17. Numerous efforts worldwide have been made to increase diversity in engineering and computer science (ECS), fields that pay well and promote upward mobility. However, in the United States (U.S.), females and st...

    Authors: Lin Tan, Isabel S. Bradburn, David B. Knight, Timothy Kinoshita and Jacob Grohs
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2022 9:68
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  18. There have been increasing calls for integrating computational thinking and computing into school science, mathematics, and engineering classrooms. The learning goals of the curriculum in this study included l...

    Authors: Eli Tucker-Raymond, Gillian Puttick, Michael Cassidy, Casper Harteveld and Giovanni M. Troiano
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2019 6:41
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  19. Successful outcomes of the Learning Assistant (LA) model include increased learning outcomes in STEM gateway courses and increased persistence to graduation among LAs and the students they serve. While there a...

    Authors: Laken M. Top, Sarah A. Schoonraad and Valerie K. Otero
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2018 5:1
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  20. Boosting students’ disciplinary interest has long been considered an important mechanism to increase student success and retention in STEM education. Yet, interest is a complex construct and can mean different...

    Authors: Eva Knekta, Ashley A. Rowland, Lisa A. Corwin and Sarah Eddy
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2020 7:23
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  21. 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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  22. Inquiry-based teaching (IBT) and improving school climate are the two most commonly used strategies for fostering learning and critical thinking skills in students. IBT has positioned itself as one of the most...

    Authors: Ricardo L. Gómez and Ana María Suárez
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2020 7:43
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  23. The Office of Naval Research (ONR) organized a STEM Challenge initiative to explore how intelligent tutoring systems (ITSs) can be developed in a reasonable amount of time to help students learn STEM topics. T...

    Authors: Arthur C. Graesser, Xiangen Hu, Benjamin D. Nye, Kurt VanLehn, Rohit Kumar, Cristina Heffernan, Neil Heffernan, Beverly Woolf, Andrew M. Olney, Vasile Rus, Frank Andrasik, Philip Pavlik, Zhiqiang Cai, Jon Wetzel, Brent Morgan, Andrew J. Hampton…
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2018 5:15
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  25. Being a successful peer-led team learning (PLTL) workshop leader involves developing content knowledge and workshop facilitation skills. These skills connected to being a peer leader, however, do not terminate...

    Authors: Anthony Chase, Anusha S. Rao, Prathima Lakmala and Pratibha Varma-Nelson
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2020 7:29
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  26. Prompted by fewer females compared to males enrolling in physics and advanced mathematics at both secondary and university levels, our research investigated the views and experiences of female students current...

    Authors: Mary C. Oliver, Amanda Woods-McConney, Dorit Maor and Andrew McConney
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2017 4:4
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  27. 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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  28. There is anecdotal evidence that many elementary teachers integrate mathematics lessons and art activities by having students first make colorful, rich material that is subsequently used in an instructional ac...

    Authors: Jennifer A. Kaminski and Vladimir M. Sloutsky
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2020 7:6
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  29. Government projections in the USA indicate that the country will need a million more science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) graduates above and beyond those already projected by the year 2022...

    Authors: Rachel Elizabeth Keller, Estrella Johnson and Steven DeShong
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2017 4:24
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  30. This paper describes the Problem-Solving Cycle model of professional development and the Mathematics Leadership Preparation model of PD leader preparation. These models form the backbone of our current researc...

    Authors: Hilda Borko, Janet Carlson, Charmaine Mangram, Robin Anderson, Alissa Fong, Susan Million, Suki Mozenter and Anthony Muro Villa
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2017 4:29
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  31. Studies continually show benefits of active learning in college classrooms, yet it is difficult to get faculty to adopt these methods. Particularly challenging is the final step of the instructional change pro...

    Authors: Charles N. Hayward and Sandra L. Laursen
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2018 5:28
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  32. Past studies of grit's educational benefits, such as science engagement, showed mixed results across cultures. So, we elaborated the prior model of grit (perseverance of effort, consistency of interest) with adap...

    Authors: Jesus Alfonso D. Datu, Ming Ming Chiu, Nino Jose Mateo and Lan Yang
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2024 11:2
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  33. Seminal reports, based on recommendations by educators, scientists, and in collaboration with students, have called for undergraduate curricula to engage students in some of the same practices as scientists—on...

    Authors: Rashmi Shivni, Christina Cline, Morgan Newport, Shupei Yuan and Heather E. Bergan-Roller
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2021 8:47
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  34. 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:

  35. Undergraduate research experiences are becoming essential for pursuing future opportunities in science, but little has been done to identify what factors predict which students get to participate in research a...

    Authors: Katelyn M. Cooper, Jacqueline M. Cala and Sara E. Brownell
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2021 8:6
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  36. Programming a computer is an increasingly valuable skill, but dropout and failure rates in introductory programming courses are regularly as high as 50%. Like many fields, programming requires students to lear...

    Authors: Lauren E. Margulieux, Briana B. Morrison and Adrienne Decker
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2020 7:19
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  37. Concealable stigmatized identities (CSIs) are identities that can be kept hidden or invisible and that carry negative stereotypes. Depression is one of the most common CSIs among undergraduates. However, to ou...

    Authors: Katelyn M. Cooper, Logan E. Gin and Sara E. Brownell
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2020 7:27
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  38. The Common Core Standards for Mathematics and Next Generation Science Standards were adopted by states with the goal of preparing students with knowledge and skills needed for college, careers, and citizenry. ...

    Authors: Amy Cassata and Elaine Allensworth
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2021 8:39
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  39. In the rapidly changing industrial environment and job market, engineering profession requires a vast body of skills, one of them being decision making under uncertainty. Knowing that misunderstanding of proba...

    Authors: Marija Kaplar, Zorana Lužanin and Srđan Verbić
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2021 8:18
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  40. Effectively facilitating teamwork experiences, particularly in the context of large-size courses, is difficult to implement. This study seeks to address the challenges of implementing effective teamwork experi...

    Authors: Alejandra J. Magana, Theodora Amuah, Sakhi Aggrawal and Devang A. Patel
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2023 10:57
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  41. Most studies of teacher professional development (PD) do not rigorously test impact on teaching practice and student learning. This makes it difficult to define what is truly “effective.” The Science Teachers Lea...

    Authors: Kathleen J. Roth, Jody Bintz, Nicole I. Z. Wickler, Connie Hvidsten, Joseph Taylor, Paul M. Beardsley, Arlo Caine and Christopher D. Wilson
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2017 4:31
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  42. The goal of this research was to determine students’ perceived self-efficacy in science classes through involving students in expanding disciplinary core idea (DCI) and interdisciplinary core idea (ICI) maps, ...

    Authors: Helen Semilarski, Regina Soobard, Jack Holbrook and Miia Rannikmäe
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2022 9:57
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  43. 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
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  45. To increase teachers’ capacity to implement high-quality instructional materials with fidelity in their classrooms through a video-based professional learning cycle, the Analyzing Instruction in Mathematics Us...

    Authors: John Lawson Russell, Joseph DiNapoli and Eileen Murray
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2022 9:46
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  47. Research suggests that the South African school curriculum, including subjects such as Life Sciences, may be failing to address students’ socio-scientific challenges such as HIV/AIDS. This could be due to the ...

    Authors: Lindelani Mnguni
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2019 6:25
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  48. Research has shown that active learning promotes student learning and increases retention rates of STEM undergraduates. Yet, instructors are reluctant to change their teaching approaches for several reasons, i...

    Authors: Sneha Tharayil, Maura Borrego, Michael Prince, Kevin A. Nguyen, Prateek Shekhar, Cynthia J. Finelli and Cynthia Waters
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2018 5:7
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  49. The success of the learning assistant (LA) model has largely been attributed to LA facilitation of active learning tasks. A deeper understanding of how LAs facilitate these tasks would inform LA training and s...

    Authors: Amreen Nasim Thompson, Robert M. Talbot, Leanne Doughty, Hannah Huvard, Paul Le, Laurel Hartley and Jeffrey Boyer
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2020 7:1
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  50. A key question in K-12 STEM education is how best to guide students as they engage in exploratory learning activities so that students develop transferable knowledge. We investigated this question in a study o...

    Authors: Catherine C. Chase, Jenna Marks, Laura J. Malkiewich and Helena Connolly
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2019 6:14
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