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Sheronda Yvette Rivers – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This ex-post facto quantitative study examined how a comprehensive STEM education program impacts high school students' ACT math and science scores as well as their attitudes toward STEM. Using data from one STEM-designated school, the researcher examined ACT math, science, and STEM results for students who took the ACT in the Spring of 2024,…
Descriptors: Magnet Schools, STEM Education, High School Students, Mathematics Achievement
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Black, W. K.; Matz, Rebecca L.; Mills, Mark; Evrard, A. E. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
Problem Roulette (PR), an online study service at the University of Michigan, offers points-free formative practice to students preparing for examinations in introductory science, technology, engineering, and mathematics courses. Using four years of PR data involving millions of problem attempts by thousands of students, we quantify the benefits…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Introductory Courses
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Semmes, Robert; Davison, Mark L.; Close, Catherine – Applied Psychological Measurement, 2011
If numerical reasoning items are administered under time limits, will two dimensions be required to account for the responses, a numerical ability dimension and a speed dimension? A total of 182 college students answered 74 numerical reasoning items. Every item was taken with and without time limits by half the students. Three psychometric models…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Logical Thinking, Timed Tests, College Students