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  3. 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
    Content type: Research Published on:

  4. Many innovative teaching strategies have been developed under the assumption that documenting successful student learning outcomes at the development site is enough to spread the innovation successfully to sec...

    Authors: Kathleen T Foote, Xaver Neumeyer, Charles Henderson, Melissa H Dancy and Robert J Beichner
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2014 1:10
    Content type: Research Published on:

  5. This paper reports on the use of classroom assessment techniques (CATs) by primary school mathematics teachers in China. CATs are short, focused assessment activities that can reveal students’ understanding of...

    Authors: Xiaoyan Zhao, Marja Van den Heuvel-Panhuizen and Michiel Veldhuis
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2016 3:19
    Content type: Research Published on:

  6. 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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  7. 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
    Content type: Research Published on:

  8. School education should improve science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) ability not only in science and mathematics but also in technology and engineering. However, practice and research are b...

    Authors: Chikahiko Yata, Tadashi Ohtani and Masataka Isobe
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2020 7:12
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

  9. There is overwhelming evidence that evidence-based teaching improves student performance; however, traditional lecture predominates in STEM courses. To provide support as faculty transform their lecture-based ...

    Authors: Mallory A. Jackson, Sungmin Moon, Jennifer H. Doherty and Mary Pat Wenderoth
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2022 9:22
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  10. Research at the secondary and postsecondary levels has clearly demonstrated the critical role that individual and contextual characteristics play in instructors’ decision to adopt educational innovations. Alth...

    Authors: Travis J Lund and Marilyne Stains
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2015 2:13
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  12. 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
    Content type: Research Published on:

  13. 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:

  14. As institutions and science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) departments emphasize faculty use of evidence-based instructional practices (EBIPs), various barriers and faculty perceptions hinder...

    Authors: Hannah Sturtevant and Lindsay Wheeler
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2019 6:35
    Content type: Research Published on:

  16. The objective of this systematic review is to identify characteristics, trends, and gaps in measurement in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) education research.

    Authors: Danka Maric, Grant A. Fore, Samuel Cornelius Nyarko and Pratibha Varma-Nelson
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2023 10:39
    Content type: Review Published on:

  17. 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
    Content type: Research Published on:

  18. 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:

  19. 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
    Content type: Research Published on:

  22. Students’ ability to construct and coordinate units has been found to have far-reaching implications for their ability to develop sophisticated understandings of key middle-grade mathematical topics such as fr...

    Authors: Catherine Ulrich and Jesse L. M. Wilkins
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2017 4:23
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  23. Much of science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medical (STEMM) education policy and research centers around developing the upper levels of the STEMM workforce sector. However, there are many positi...

    Authors: Matthew A. Cannady, Debra Moore, Elizabeth Votruba-Drzal, Eric Greenwald, Regie Stites and Christian D. Schunn
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2017 4:22
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  24. Identity provides a useful conceptual lens for understanding educational inequalities in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). In this paper, we examine how paying attention to physical and ...

    Authors: Spela Godec, Uma Patel, Louise Archer and Emily Dawson
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2020 7:51
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  26. 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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  27. Design and science inquiry are intertwined during engineering practice. In ... design behaviors and scientific explanations. Data on student design processes were collected as students engaged in a project on des...

    Authors: Şenay Purzer, Molly Hathaway Goldstein, Robin S Adams, Charles Xie and Saeid Nourian
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2015 2:9
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  28. This study investigated learning outcomes and user perceptions from interactions with a hybrid intelligent tutoring system created by combining the AutoTutor conversational tutoring system with the Assessment ...

    Authors: Benjamin D. Nye, Philip I. Pavlik Jr., Alistair Windsor, Andrew M. Olney, Mustafa Hajeer and Xiangen Hu
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2018 5:12
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  29. Fractions continue to pose a critical challenge for students and their teachers alike. Mathematics education research indicates that the challenge with fractions may stem from the limitations of part-whole con...

    Authors: Jesse L. M. Wilkins and Anderson Norton
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2018 5:27
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  30. 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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  31. 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:

  32. 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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  33. The Scientific Teaching (ST) pedagogical framework encompasses many of the best practices recommended in the literature and highlighted in national reports. Understanding the growth and impact of ST requires i...

    Authors: Mary F. Durham, Jennifer K. Knight, Emily K. Bremers, Jameson D. DeFreece, Alex R. Paine and Brian A. Couch
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2018 5:31
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  34. Teacher emotions are sometimes underplayed in the research field of teaching and teacher education. Also, teachers often undergo transformations in their professional identities during education reforms. Howev...

    Authors: Haozhe Jiang, Ke Wang, Xiaoqin Wang, Xiaohui Lei and Ziyi Huang
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2021 8:51
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  35. Women are underrepresented in the field of engineering within academic and professional settings. Based upon premises outlined by social role theory and goal congruity theory, a key factor that contributes to ...

    Authors: Cassondra Batz-Barbarich, Nicole Strah and Louis Tay
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2024 11:23
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  36. 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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  37. While there have been numerous calls to increase the participation of people with disabilities in STEM, many postsecondary institutions are not equipped to support students with disabilities. We examined the a...

    Authors: Erin Scanlon, Zachary W. Taylor, John Raible, Jacob Bates and Jacquelyn J. Chini
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2021 8:25
    Content type: Research Published on:

  38. The newly formed discipline of engineering education is addressing the need to (a) enhance STEM education for precollege students and (b) identify optimum ways to introduce engineering content starting, perhap...

    Authors: Aikaterini Bagiati, So Yoon Yoon, Demetra Evangelou, Alejandra Magana, Garene Kaloustian and Jiabin Zhu
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2015 2:1
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  39. 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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  41. Computer-aided learning management systems (LMSs) are widely used in higher education and are viewed as beneficial when transitioning from conventional face-to-face teaching to fully online courses. While LMSs...

    Authors: Sithara H. P. W. Gamage, Jennifer R. Ayres, Monica B. Behrend and Elizabeth J. Smith
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2019 6:27
    Content type: Short report Published on:

  42. 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:

  45. Change strategies may leverage interpersonal relationships and conversations to spread teaching innovations among science faculty. Knowledge sharing refers to the process by which individuals transfer informat...

    Authors: A. Kelly Lane, Brittnee Earl, Stephanie Feola, Jennifer E. Lewis, Jacob D. McAlpin, Karl Mertens, Susan E. Shadle, John Skvoretz, John P. Ziker, Marilyne Stains, Brian A. Couch and Luanna B. Prevost
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2022 9:53
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  46. Interactive learning environments often provide help strategies to facilitate learning. Hints, for example, help students recall relevant concepts, identify mistakes, and make inferences. However, several stud...

    Authors: Paul Salvador Inventado, Peter Scupelli, Korinn Ostrow, Neil Heffernan III, Jaclyn Ocumpaugh, Victoria Almeda and Stefan Slater
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2018 5:13
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  47. 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:

  48. 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:

  49. 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:

  50. STEM education providers increasingly use complex intervention models to redress persistent under-representation in STEM sectors. These intervention models require robust evaluation to determine their effectiv...

    Authors: Annie Padwick, Opeyemi Dele-Ajayi, Carol Davenport and Rebecca Strachan
    Citation: International Journal of STEM Education 2023 10:33
    Content type: Research Published on:
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