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  1. 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:

  2. There is a lack of students enrolling in upper secondary school physics courses. In addition, many students ... -level science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) programmes. The aim of this research ...

    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:

  4. This study investigates the models of elementary content specialization (ECS) in elementary mathematics and science and the affordances and constraints related to ECS—both generally and in relation to specific...

    Authors: Kimberly A. Markworth, Joseph Brobst, Chris Ohana and Ruth Parker
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2016 3:16
    Content type: Research Published on:

  7. Links between math anxiety and the choice of a math-intensive career might change over development and differ by gender. The study included three research populations: primary school (N = 87, 48 females, mean age...

    Authors: Hili Eidlin-Levy, Elad Avraham, Laurain Fares and Orly Rubinsten
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2023 10:49
    Content type: Research Published on:

  8. Understanding student motivational factors such as test anxiety and science confidence is important for increasing retention in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM), especially for underrepresente...

    Authors: Sehoya Cotner, Lucas M. Jeno, J. D. Walker, Christian Jørgensen and Vigdis Vandvik
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2020 7:55
    Content type: Research Published on:

  9. In recent years, research on online learning platforms has exploded in quantity. More and more researchers are using these platforms to conduct A/B tests on the impact of different designs, and multiple scient...

    Authors: Ryan S. Baker, Nidhi Nasiar, Weiyi Gong and Chelsea Porter
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2022 9:16
    Content type: Research Published on:

  10. Emerging methodologies that apply and integrate science, technology, engineering, art, and math (STEAM) in education have appeared in recent years as a pedagogical alternative providing more holistic and attra...

    Authors: José-Antonio Marín-Marín, Antonio-José Moreno-Guerrero, Pablo Dúo-Terrón and Jesús López-Belmonte
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2021 8:41
    Content type: Review Published on:

  11. In contrast to the extensive research on socioeconomic gaps in reading and math achievement, little attention has been given to socioeconomic disparities in science skills, particularly during the early years ...

    Authors: Laura Betancur, Elizabeth Votruba-Drzal and Christian Schunn
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2018 5:38
    Content type: Research Published on:

  12. 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
    Content type: Research Published on:

  14. 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
    Content type: Research Published on:

  15. The successful irruption of AI-based technology in our daily lives has led to a growing educational, social, and political interest in training citizens in AI. Education systems now need to train students at t...

    Authors: Lorena Casal-Otero, Alejandro Catala, Carmen Fernández-Morante, Maria Taboada, Beatriz Cebreiro and Senén Barro
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2023 10:29
    Content type: Review Published on:

  17. 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 ski...

    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
    Content type: Research Published on:

  18. Change leaders (faculty, administrators, and/or external stakeholders) need to develop relational expertise, recognizing the perspectives of others, to enable emergent, systemic change. We describe how change lea...

    Authors: Kathleen Quardokus Fisher, Ann Sitomer, Jana Bouwma-Gearhart and Milo Koretsky
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2019 6:17
    Content type: Research Published on:

  19. The Moodle Learning Management System (LMS) is widely used in online teaching and learning, especially in STEM education. However, educational research on using Moodle is scattered throughout the literature. T...

    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:

  20. Students’ academic self-efficacy maximizes likelihood for success and retention, yet prior research suggests that historically underrepresented (minoritized) undergraduate students in higher education and in c...

    Authors: Jessica Sperling, Menna Mburi, Megan Gray, Lorrie Schmid and Ann Saterbak
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2024 11:8
    Content type: Research Published on:

  22. 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
    Content type: Research Published on:

  23. Teacher efficacy is one of the most influential components for effective instruction, highlighting the importance of providing preservice teachers (PSTs) with opportunities to learn how to teach engineering du...

    Authors: Rebekah Hammack, Ibrahim H. Yeter, Christina Pavlovich and Tugba Boz
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2024 11:4
    Content type: Research Published on:

    The Correction to this article has been published in International Journal of STEM Education 2024 11:16

  24. This study proposes a learning cycle and a comprehensive research framework that integrates Bloom’s taxonomy: the cognitive domain (cognitive load), affective domain (attitude and motivation) and psychomotor d...

    Authors: Chih-Hung Wu, Chih-Hsing Liu and Yueh-Min Huang
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2022 9:35
    Content type: Research Published on:

  25. Using games in education has the potential to increase students’ motivation and engagement in the learning process, gathering long-lasting practical knowledge. Expanding interest in implementing a game-based a...

    Authors: Maja Videnovik, Tone Vold, Linda Kiønig, Ana Madevska Bogdanova and Vladimir Trajkovik
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2023 10:54
    Content type: Review Published on:

  26. 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
    Content type: Research Published on:

  27. Nowadays, scientists not only need to be creative, resourceful, and inventive regarding their research questions and need to understand their field and research methods, but also need to know how to teach, how...

    Authors: Tim N. Höffler, Christine Köhler and Ilka Parchmann
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2019 6:29
    Content type: Short report Published on:

  29. There exist shared competencies between computational thinking (CT) and mathematics, and these two domains also mutually benefit from various teaching approaches. However, the linkages between mathematics and ...

    Authors: Silvia Wen-Yu Lee, Hsing-Ying Tu, Guang-Lin Chen and Hung-Ming Lin
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2023 10:64
    Content type: Research Published on:

  30. Robotics competitions are increasingly popular and potentially provide an on-ramp to computer science, which is currently highly gender imbalanced. However, within competitive robotics teams, student participa...

    Authors: Eben B. Witherspoon, Christian D. Schunn, Ross M. Higashi and Emily C. Baehr
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2016 3:18
    Content type: Research Published on:

  31. 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
    Content type: Research Published on:

  33. In the realm of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematic (STEM) education, computer programming stands as a vital discipline, amalgamating cross-disciplinary knowledge and fostering the capacity to sol...

    Authors: Hsin-Yu Lee, Chia-Ju Lin, Wei-Sheng Wang, Wei-Cyun Chang and Yueh-Min Huang
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2023 10:52
    Content type: Research Published on:

  34. 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
    Content type: Research Published on:

  35. Undergraduate research experiences (UREs) have been proposed as means to increase the retention and engagement of minority—and more specifically Hispanic—college students in science, technology, engineering, a...

    Authors: Laura Rodríguez Amaya, Tania Betancourt, Kristina Henry Collins, Orlando Hinojosa and Carlos Corona
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2018 5:9
    Content type: Research Published on:

  37. 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:

  38. A considerable body of evidence demonstrates that active, student-centered instructional practices are more effective than lecture-based, transmissionist approaches in improving undergraduate STEM learning. De...

    Authors: Melody McConnell, Lisa Montplaisir and Erika G Offerdahl
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2020 7:53
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

  39. Teacher communities of practice, identity, and self-efficacy have been proposed to influence positive teacher outcomes in retention, suggesting all three may be related constructs. Qualitative studies of commu...

    Authors: Samuel J. Polizzi, Yicong Zhu, Joshua W. Reid, Brandon Ofem, Sara Salisbury, Michael Beeth, Gillian Roehrig, Margaret Mohr-Schroeder, Keith Sheppard and Gregory T. Rushton
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2021 8:30
    Content type: Research Published on:

  40. 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
    Content type: Research Published on:

  42. 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 practic...

    Authors: Yael Furman Shaharabani and Anat Yarden
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2019 6:21
    Content type: Research Published on:

  43. 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
    Content type: Research Published on:

  44. The necessity of a science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) literate population continues to be a high priority worldwide. One approach to build and bolster a STEM-literate workforce is to explore app...

    Authors: Teresa L. Tinnell, Patricia A. S. Ralston, Thomas R. Tretter and Mary E. Mills
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2019 6:26
    Content type: Research Published on:

  46. 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
    Content type: Research Published on:

  47. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many universities moved to emergency remote teaching (ERT). This allowed institutions to continue their instruction despite not being in person. However, ERT is not without conseq...

    Authors: Cristine Donham, Hillary A. Barron, Jourjina Subih Alkhouri, Maya Changaran Kumarath, Wesley Alejandro, Erik Menke and Petra Kranzfelder
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2022 9:19
    Content type: Research Published on:

    The Correction to this article has been published in International Journal of STEM Education 2022 9:25

  48. Typical approaches to assessing students’ understanding of the engineering design process (EDP) include performance assessments that are time-consuming to score. It is also possible to use multiple-choice (MC)...

    Authors: Stefanie A. Wind, Meltem Alemdar, Jeremy A. Lingle, Roxanne Moore and Abdullah Asilkalkan
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2019 6:4
    Content type: Research Published on:

  50. 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
    Content type: Research Published on:
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