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  1. 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
    Content type: Research Published on:

  2. 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:

  3. Being an effective team member is one of the key twenty-first century skills and a fundamental proficiency required for jobs and work settings in an increasingly global economy. Collaborative problem-solving i...

    Authors: Muhsin Menekse, Senay Purzer and Damji Heo
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2019 6:7
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  4. 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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  5. 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:

  6. This paper reports on a professional development workshop in University level mathematics. The workshop was grounded in Schoenfeld’s (How we think. A theory of goal-oriented decision-making and its educational...

    Authors: Alan H. Schoenfeld, Mike Thomas and Bill Barton
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2016 3:4
    Content type: Research Published on:

  7. Given the relatively low graduation and retention rate in undergraduate engineering programs in the United States, the factors that influence student success outcomes need to be examined. However, limited rese...

    Authors: Xi Wang, Minhao Dai and Robin Mathis
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2022 9:23
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  8. 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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  9. Makers are a growing community of STEM-minded people who bridge technical and non-technical backgrounds to imagine, build and fabricate engineering systems. Some have engineering training, some do not. This pa...

    Authors: Christina Foster, Aubrey Wigner, Micah Lande and Shawn S. Jordan
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2018 5:6
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  10. It is well-documented that experiences in STEM courses for women and students of color are different from the experiences of White men. As part of a larger interview study, 183 college seniors from diverse gen...

    Authors: Melissa Dancy, Katherine Rainey, Elizabeth Stearns, Roslyn Mickelson and Stephanie Moller
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2020 7:52
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  11. 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
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  13. Functional thinking is characterized as a specific way of thinking in relationships, dependencies, and changes. Hence, beyond mathematics, it is also crucial for other (STEM) disciplines as well as for everyda...

    Authors: Ute Sproesser, Markus Vogel, Tobias Dörfler and Andreas Eichler
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2022 9:33
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  14. Applied Calculus courses serve hundreds of thousands of undergraduates as quantitative preparation and gatekeepers across diverse fields of study. The current study investigated how motivational factors are as...

    Authors: Cong Wang, Hyun Jin Cho, Benjamin Wiles, Jennifer D. Moss, Emily M. Bonem, Qian Li, Yaheng Lu and Chantal Levesque-Bristol
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2022 9:41
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  15. The body of work regarding gender bias in academia shows that female instructors are often rated lower by students than their male counterparts. Mechanisms are complex and intersectional and often associated w...

    Authors: C. A. Evans, K. Adler, D. Yucalan and L. M. Schneider-Bentley
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2024 11:5
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  16. Mental health for engineering undergraduates is an urgent topic for engineering educators. Narratives of engineering education requiring suffering may create or exacerbate problematic perceptions around stress...

    Authors: Karin J. Jensen, Joseph F. Mirabelli, Andrea J. Kunze, Thomas E. Romanchek and Kelly J. Cross
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2023 10:30
    Content type: Research Published on:

  17. Team-based instructional change is a promising model for improving undergraduate STEM instruction. Teams are more likely to produce sustainable, innovative, and high-quality outcomes than individuals working a...

    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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  19. In the US, there is significant interest from policy boards and funding agencies to change students’ experiences in undergraduate mathematics classes. Even with these reform initiatives, researchers continue t...

    Authors: Estrella Johnson, Rachel Keller, Valerie Peterson and Timothy Fukawa-Connelly
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2019 6:23
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  21. Women and students of color are widely underrepresented in most STEM fields. In order to investigate this underrepresentation, we interviewed 201 college seniors, primarily women and people of color, who eithe...

    Authors: Katherine Rainey, Melissa Dancy, Roslyn Mickelson, Elizabeth Stearns and Stephanie Moller
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2018 5:10
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  22. The preparation of future scientists, the technical workforce, and informed citizens will require continued transformation to the ways we approach STEM teaching and learning. Undergraduate STEM education is ra...

    Authors: Adam J. Kleinschmit, Anne Rosenwald, Elizabeth F. Ryder, Sam Donovan, Barbara Murdoch, Nealy F. Grandgenett, Mark Pauley, Eric Triplett, William Tapprich and William Morgan
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2023 10:16
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

  23. 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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  25. Preparing today’s undergraduate students from science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) and related health professions to solve wide-sweeping healthcare challenges is critical. Moreover, it is imperati...

    Authors: Patrice M. Ludwig, Jacquelyn K. Nagel and Erica J. Lewis
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2017 4:33
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  26. Promoting and improving STEM education is being driven by economic concerns as modern economies have a rising demand for qualified researchers, technicians, and other STEM professionals. In addition, women rem...

    Authors: Seppe Hermans, Marijn Gijsen, Tine Mombaers and Peter van Petegem
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2022 9:67
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  27. Cooperative and inquiry-based pedagogies provide a context for classroom discourse in which students develop joint understanding of subject matter knowledge. Using the symbolic interactionist perspective that ...

    Authors: Abdi-Rizak M. Warfa, James Nyachwaya and Gillian Roehrig
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2018 5:46
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  29. Data literacy is increasingly important in today’s data-driven world. Students across many educational systems first formally learn about data in elementary school not as a separate subject but via the mathema...

    Authors: Yook Kit Ow-Yeong, Ibrahim H. Yeter and Farhan Ali
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2023 10:8
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  30. 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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  31. Across the globe, there have been significant reforms to improve STEM education at all levels. A significant part of this has been teacher reform. While the responses and resilience of STEM teachers to educati...

    Authors: Pauline Mary Ross, E. Scanes, P. Poronnik, H. Coates and W. Locke
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2022 9:11
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  32. 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:

  33. Many undergraduate students majoring in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields lack experience in collaborative thinking, limiting their effectiveness as they enter careers in academic...

    Authors: Kendra H. Oliver, Jonathan D. Ehrman and Christina C. Marasco
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2019 6:36
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  34. 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
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  36. Women and people of color continue to be underrepresented in many STEM fields and careers. Many studies have linked societal biases against the mathematical abilities of women and people of color to this under...

    Authors: Yasemin Copur-Gencturk, Ian Thacker and Joseph R. Cimpian
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2023 10:31
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  37. Calls to improve student learning and increase the number of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) college and university graduates assert the need for widespread adoption of evidence-based instruc...

    Authors: Susan E. Shadle, Anthony Marker and Brittnee Earl
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2017 4:8
    Content type: Research Published on:

  38. Although pollinators play an integral role in human well-being, their continued global decline reflects the need to provide and evaluate general pollinator knowledge to promote their conservation. Enhancing le...

    Authors: P. Citlally Jimenez, Doug Golick, Brian A. Couch and Jenny M. Dauer
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2022 9:52
    Content type: Research Published on:

  40. This research highlights a school-university collaboration to pilot a professional development framework for integrating STEM in K-6 mathematics classrooms in a mid-Atlantic suburban school division. Because m...

    Authors: Courtney K. Baker and Terrie M. Galanti
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2017 4:10
    Content type: Research Published on:

  41. Despite the increasing need for STEM skills, to date, the connection between STEM subject choices and their impact on students’ educational pathways has not been widely studied. Focusing on the mathematics cho...

    Authors: Satu Kaleva, Jouni Pursiainen, Mirkka Hakola, Jarmo Rusanen and Hanni Muukkonen
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2019 6:43
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  43. 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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  44. 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:

  46. 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
    Content type: Research Published on:

  47. 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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  48. 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
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  49. The literature asserts that science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education needs to be authentic. Although models and modelling provide a basis from which to increase authenticity by bridgi...

    Authors: Jonas Hallström, Per Norström and Konrad J. Schönborn
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2023 10:62
    Content type: Research Published on:
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