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Download full textMarley Robinson Belot – Online Submission, 2025
This paper explores how public and student engagement with NASA's Lucy Mission--targeting the Jupiter Trojan asteroids affects informal science learning, interest in planetary science, and youth engagement with space-related careers. Through a mixed-methods study including surveys, observational data, and analysis of public outreach campaigns, we…
Descriptors: Science Education, Space Exploration, Astronomy, Informal Education
Peer reviewedBuo, Carrie; Brookover, Matthew; Decker, Garrett; Kindig, Rachael; Duff, R. Joel; Makki, Nidaa – Journal of STEM Outreach, 2021
Informal outreach programs can provide authentic science experiences for elementary school students, who may not have these experiences in formal school settings. Research indicates that students lose interest in science in middle school, so it's important to reach them early. To address this need, we designed a summer camp focused on exposing…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Elementary School Students, Biology, Camps
Koo, Bon W.; Bathia, Shruti; Morell, Linda; Gochyyev, Perman; Phillips, Michelle; Wilson, Mark; Smith, Rebecca – Journal of STEM Outreach, 2021
While the impact of authentic research experiences in STEM on student engagement and interest in science has been documented, less is known about the role of peer communities in fostering this interest and engagement. This research explores the idea that a strong peer community can catalyze deep learning and engagement in scientific research among…
Descriptors: Peer Relationship, Communities of Practice, Sense of Community, Self Efficacy
Direct linkSkipper, Yvonne; de Carvalho, Eloise – Educational Forum, 2019
Women are underrepresented in science careers. To overcome this, it is important to explore how to encourage girls to continue to study science. This intervention involved girls aged 12-14 attending interactive science sessions at a university. Girls completed questionnaires before and after the session. Through the intervention, girls became more…
Descriptors: Females, Womens Education, Academic Persistence, Science Education
Levine, Mindy; DiScenza, Dana J. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2018
Reported herein is the design, implementation, and evaluation of a full-day outreach program for high school girls that focuses entirely on sugar-related activities. The program, which we ran in February 2016 and February 2017, included multiple hands-on sugar-based experiments to increase the participants' interest in and enthusiasm for science.…
Descriptors: Outreach Programs, High School Students, Females, Science Instruction
Moraga-Calderón, Tania S.; Buisman, Henk; Cramer, Julia – European Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2020
Studying quantum physics in upper secondary school is now a standard practice (Stadermann et al., 2019). But given the context of science education, with low recruitment numbers in higher education and poor attitudes towards science, it remains a question whether students find the learning of quantum physics relevant. In this study, we explore how…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Student Attitudes, Quantum Mechanics, Relevance (Education)
Todd, Brandy L.; Zvoch, Keith – International Journal of Science Education, 2019
This study investigates the impact of an informal science outreach programme built around theories of identity formation and self-efficacy on middle school girls' science affinities. A lottery-based, randomised control trial was used to identify programme effects on four science affinity outcomes: science interests, efficacy with science, science…
Descriptors: Science Education, STEM Education, Informal Education, Intervention
Short-Meyerson, Katherine; Sandrin, Susannah; Meyerson, Peter; White, Lindsey – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2022
This study examines interactions of fourth graders and their parents during informal science activities to understand the parental influence on children's science interests, attitudes, and participation. Sixteen Latino/a parent-child dyads and 16 Non-Latino/a parent-child dyads, matched on socioeconomic status (SES), participated in this…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Elementary School Students, Science Activities, Parent Child Relationship
Dyer, Robert M. B.; Venton, B. Jill; Maeng, Jennifer L. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2018
University of Virginia, like many other universities, has developed a chemistry outreach program (called Chemistry Learning through Experimentation, Awareness, and Demonstration; i.e., Chemistry LEAD) that visits K-5 schools and teaches inquiry-based chemistry lessons in order to engage local students with science. Chemistry LEAD is graduate…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Outreach Programs, Elementary School Science, Inquiry
Millar, Victoria; Toscano, Maurizio; van Driel, Jan; Stevenson, Emma; Nelson, Chloë; Kenyon, Clare – International Journal of Science Education, 2019
There is a concern in many countries with participation rates in science. One response to this has been a proliferation of university run science outreach programs that aim to both engage and retain students in science. Previous studies of outreach programs have tended to take into account the perspectives of just a few stakeholders in the…
Descriptors: Outreach Programs, Science Education, Student Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes
De Paleville, Daniela Terson – Advances in Physiology Education, 2019
The purpose of this outreach program was to promote elementary school students' understanding of human physiology and exercise science. I conducted this outreach event for 421 pre-kindergarten through grade 5 students attending a Spanish-immersion elementary school within a large, urban public school district in Kentucky. To meet the needs of the…
Descriptors: Physiology, Elementary School Students, Immersion Programs, Spanish
Todd, Brandy; Zvoch, Keith – Research in Science Education, 2019
This study examines science interests, efficacy, attitudes, and identity--referred to as affinities, in the context of an informal science outreach program for girls. A mixed methods design was used to explore girls' science affinities before, during, and after participation in a cohort-based summer science camp. Multivariate analysis of survey…
Descriptors: Females, Scientific Attitudes, Science Interests, Self Concept
Stieben, Margaret; Halpin, Patricia A.; Matyas, Marsha Lakes – Advances in Physiology Education, 2017
Since 2005, nearly 600 Physiology Understanding Week (PhUn Week) events have taken place across the U.S., involving American Physiological Society (APS) members in K-12 outreach. The program seeks to build student understanding of physiology and physiology careers, assist teachers in recognizing physiology in their standards-based curriculum, and…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Outreach Programs, Models, Program Development
Fitzallen, Noleine; Brown, Natalie Ruth – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2017
University science outreach programmes are used to encourage more school students to select science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) subjects in further education and pursue science-related careers. The benefits of science outreach programmes are often espoused from the perspective of programme participants. Little attention,…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, STEM Education, Engineering Education, Outreach Programs
Gumaelius, Lena; Almqvist, Monica; Árnadóttir, Anna; Axelsson, Anders; Conejero, J. Alberto; García-Sabater, José P.; Klitgaard, Lene; Kozma, Cecilia; Maheut, Julien; Marin-Garcia, Juan; Mickos, Henrik; Nilsson, Per-Olof; Norén, Agneta; Pinho-Lopes, Margarida; Prenzel, Manfred; Ray, Johanna; Roxå, Torgny; Voss, Mirjam – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2016
Since the 1990s, the low number of students choosing to study science and technology in higher education has been on the societal agenda and many initiatives have been launched to promote awareness regarding career options. The initiatives particularly focus on increasing enrolment in the engineering programmes. This article describes and compares…
Descriptors: Outreach Programs, Universities, Science Interests, College Programs
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