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The Role of a Summer Field Experience in Fostering STEM Students' Socioemotional Perceptions and Social Justice Awareness as Preparation for a Science Teaching Career
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Liu, Amy; Toma, Shannon; Levis-Fitzgerald, Marc; Russell, Arlene A. – Berkeley Review of Education, 2020
This study aimed to better understand the role that an undergraduate teacher exploration program for STEM majors played in STEM teacher education and recruitment. Utilizing journal data from 126 undergraduate students engaged in an intensive and immersive four-day internship that took place in Summer 2015 and Summer 2016, this study examined how…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, STEM Education, Teacher Education, Undergraduate Students
Fostering "Connectedness to Nature" through U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Education and Outreach Programming: A Qualitative Evaluation
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Theimer, Stefan; Ernst, Julie – Applied Environmental Education and Communication, 2012
Despite a recent increased emphasis on emotional connections to nature and their relationship to stewardship and health outcomes in the environmental education and other literature, there is a lack of understanding of what qualities of nature experiences actually influence emotional connections to nature, otherwise known as environmental…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Animals, Wildlife, Affective Behavior
Consumer Education Outreach Project: A Community Approach Utilizing an Off-Campus Laboratory.
Parker, Janet M. – 1977
A consumer education outreach project used a community, off-campus laboratory approach with fifty-seven girls and ten boys from high schools in the Santa Barbara area in the development of a program to better prepare students to meet the challenges of everyday living. The assumption made was that motivation to learn would increase in…
Descriptors: Consumer Education, Field Experience Programs, High Schools, Home Economics Education
Experience Based Career Education Project. Annual Evaluation Report, 1978-1979.
Van Dusseldorp, Ralph A. – 1979
This report describes the third-party evaluation of the third year of operation of the experience based career education (EBCE) project administered by Iowa Central Community College. The evaluation is based on examination of project records; interviews with staff, students, and resource persons; questionnaires completed by students, parents, and…
Descriptors: Career Education, Career Exploration, Employer Attitudes, Experiential Learning
An Evaluation of Project EXCEL: Experience Based Career Education Learning Program.
Croft, Don B. – 1979
This report presents evaluative information about Project EXCEL (experience-based career education learning program) for the 1978-79 school year. Eight evaluation instruments were used by the third-party evaluator to collect data: (1) student information questionnaire, (2) student plans and perceptions survey, (3) parent opinion survey, (4)…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Career Education, Career Exploration, Employer Attitudes
Relevant Experiences for Alternative Learning Project. Year 1. Third-Party Annual Evaluation Report.
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Wasdyke, Raymond G. – 1977
This report of the first-year operations of project REAL (Relevant Experiences for Alternative Learning), an experience based career education (EBCE) project based on the EBCE model developed by Northwest Regional Educational Laboratories, is presented in four parts. (The three broad characteristics of Project REAL follow: student-centered and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administration, Advisory Committees, Basic Skills