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STEM Outside of School: A Meta-Analysis of the Effects of Informal Science Education on Students' Interests and Attitudes for STEM
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Xin Xia; Lillian R. Bentley; Xitao Fan; Robert H. Tai – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2025
This meta-analysis explores the impact of informal science education experiences (such as after-school programs, enrichment activities, etc.) on students' attitudes towards, and interest in, STEM disciplines (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics). The research addresses two primary questions: (1) What is the overall effect size of…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, STEM Education, Science Education, Informal Education
Evaluation of Parents' Views on an Early Childhood Science Program Including Activities in Out-of-School Learning Environments
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Uludag, Gonca; Erkan, Nefise Semra – Science Insights Education Frontiers, 2023
Young children's instinctive curiosity is essential in early childhood science education. Efficacious science education is associated with the characteristics of a qualified science program and an effective learning environment. The out-of-school learning environments make it easier to achieve the aims of science education in early childhood with…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Early Childhood Education, Science Activities, Informal Education
'Don't Pick, Don't Lick': Connecting Young Children's Risky Play in Nature to Science Education in Australian Bush Kinders
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Christopher Speldewinde – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2025
The forest school approach to nature learning has gathered momentum in the UK and across parts of Europe including Scandinavia for well over 50 years. In other contexts that include Canada, China, New Zealand and Australia, nature-based early childhood education and care settings, influenced by European forest school approaches, are in a rapid…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Preschool Curriculum, Preschool Education