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Andrea G. Marshall; Kit Neikirk; Dominique Stephens; Edgar Garza-Lopez; Zer Vue; Heather K. Beasley; Yelena Janumyan Doe; Desmond Campbell; Letimicia Fears; Ahmad Alghanem; Elsie C. Spencer; Estevão Scudese; Beverly Owens; Chia Vang; Derrick J. Morton; Zachary Conley; Antentor Hinton; Antentor Hinton Jr. – Advances in Physiology Education, 2024
Identity matters in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine (STEMM) because it can affect an individual's long-term sense of belonging, which may in turn affect their persistence in STEMM. Early K-12 science classes often teach students about the foundational discoveries of the field, which have been predominately made, or at…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Diversity, Scientists, STEM Education
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Branko Andic; Mirjana Maricic; Filiz Mumcu; Theodosia Prodromou; Janika Leoste; Musa Saimon; Zsolt Lavicza – Smart Learning Environments, 2024
Educational Robotics (ER) has emerged as one of the tools to improve STEM learning in primary education if students are properly instructed. However, there is a lack of studies that guide teachers on which type of instruction should be used for ER in STEM between direct (DI) and indirect instruction (II). As a result, the present study aims to…
Descriptors: Direct Instruction, Educational Technology, Robotics, Task Analysis
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Ekatushabe, Margaret; Kwarikunda, Diana; Muwonge, Charles M.; Ssenyonga, Joseph; Schiefele, Ulrich – International Journal of STEM Education, 2021
Background: Boredom during learning activities has the potential of impeding attention, motivation, learning and eventually achievement. Yet, research focusing on its possible antecedents seems to have received less attention especially within the physics domain. Based on assumptions of the Control Value Theory of Achievement Emotions (CVTAE),…
Descriptors: Correlation, Personal Autonomy, Teacher Student Relationship, Teacher Behavior
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Gu, Chuanhua; Hu, Bi Ying; Ngwira, Flemmings Fishani; Jing, Zhi; Zhou, Zongkui – Journal of Creative Behavior, 2016
This study investigated the effect of general creative personality and freedom of task choice on the social creativity of adolescents. The results indicated, first, that senior high school students scored higher than junior high school students. Second, girls scored higher than boys on originality, fluency, flexibility, appropriateness, and…
Descriptors: Personality, Freedom, High School Students, Gender Differences
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Jansen, Malte; Becker, Michael; Neumann, Marko – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2021
Expectancy-value theory (EVT) proposes that students' appraisals of success expectancy and task value are the main drivers of their study and career choices. Dimensional comparison theory proposes that these beliefs are themselves affected by students comparing their ability across different domains. However, only a few studies have aimed to…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Task Analysis, Career Choice, Comparative Analysis
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Barnes, Tiffany, Ed.; Chi, Min, Ed.; Feng, Mingyu, Ed. – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2016
The 9th International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM 2016) is held under the auspices of the International Educational Data Mining Society at the Sheraton Raleigh Hotel, in downtown Raleigh, North Carolina, in the USA. The conference, held June 29-July 2, 2016, follows the eight previous editions (Madrid 2015, London 2014, Memphis…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Evidence Based Practice, Inquiry, Science Instruction