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Dominguez, Ximena; Vidiksis, Regan; Leones, Tiffany; Kamdar, Danae; Presser, Ashley Lewis; Bueno, Marcia; Orr, Jillian – Digital Promise, 2023
There is growing recognition of the need and importance for high-quality science teaching and learning in early childhood. The increased emphasis on science stems from recognition of the following: (1) young children are curious and interested in making sense of the world around them (Larimore, 2020); (2) early science experiences not only support…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Science Education, Curriculum Design, Parent Participation
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Medha Dalal; Assad Iqbal; Adam R. Carberry – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2024
Contribution: This work examines the impact of a unique precollege STEM education initiative during its two pilot years. The study contributes to the growing body of research by unpacking the needs of and the impact on an important stakeholder group (i.e., the teachers) in the engineering education ecosystem to help inform the future design and…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Program Implementation, Program Effectiveness, High Schools
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Lisa M. Ridgley; Danielle Silvaggio – Grantee Submission, 2025
The "Coding Our Future" intervention aimed to develop and implement a Computer Science (CS) curriculum, and to train teachers to offer computer science courses in elementary and middle schools. Its goals were to enhance students' competency and self-efficacy in computer science and to boost the enrollment of underrepresented students in…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Elementary School Students, Grade 3, Grade 4
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Jeffrey Schagrin; Bridget Sheng; Lora Wolff – Grantee Submission, 2025
The Innovative STEM--Computer Science and Engineering Design (STEM CSED) project (Award #: U411C190169), funded by an Early-Phase Education Innovation and Research (EIR) grant, sought to strengthen math achievement and foster positive attitudes toward STEM and computer science among students in Waukegan Community Unit School District #60, a large,…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Computer Science, Mathematics Achievement, Student Attitudes
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Agyei, Douglas Darko – Education and Information Technologies, 2021
This study followed up on a selected cohort of 4945 Science, Technology, English and Mathematics (STEM) teacher participants from six Sub-Saharan African countries namely: Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Ethiopia, Ghana and Nigeria. The teachers were involved in an instructional digital professional development programme targeted at building their…
Descriptors: Technology Integration, Information Technology, Capacity Building, Curriculum Implementation
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Anwar, Saira; Menekse, Muhsin; Guzey, Selcen; Bryan, Lynn A. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2022
Recent calls for reform in K-12 science education and the National Academy of Engineering's Grand Challenges for Engineering in the 21st Century emphasize improving science teaching, students' engagement, and learning. In this study, we designed and implemented a curriculum unit for sixth-grade students (i = 1305). The curriculum unit integrated…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Grade 6, Interdisciplinary Approach, Science Education
Kim Luttgen; Kevin Huang; Eunice Chow; Shuangting Yang; Linlin Li – Grantee Submission, 2024
Rural students often face challenges in receiving high-quality education in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). Yet without meaningful STEM educational opportunities, rural students might not develop the knowledge and skills needed to compete in a technology-driven workforce. The Learning by Making program (LbyM), an innovative…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, STEM Education, Educational Innovation, Achievement Gap
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Aldahmash, Abdulwali H.; Alamri, Naem, M.; Aljallal, Mohammed A. – Cogent Education, 2019
For the advancement of current and future economic and overall well-being to occur, STEM professionals are highly needed. STEM education is an approach that integrates science, technology, engineering and mathematics curricula into one interdisciplinary curriculum. In the context of STEM education, learners acquire deep and critical thinking…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Teachers, Mathematics Teachers, STEM Education
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Parker, Michele; Ficklin, Kelly; Mishra, Margaret – Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education (CITE Journal), 2020
This study investigated the influence of Engineering Is Elementary (EiE) professional development on teachers' self-efficacy of integrating engineering into the K-5 curriculum in a rural school district in southeastern North Carolina. In fall 2016, the researchers conducted an embedded mixed-method study. The focus of this paper is the…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Rural Schools, Public Schools, Elementary School Teachers
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Wheeler, Lindsay B. – International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2021
A plethora of literature exists identifying the importance of engaging students in learning within Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) undergraduate courses, making professional development (PD) for faculty teaching these courses vital. Yet few studies of PD programs focus on STEM faculty, incorporate direct measures of faculty…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Introductory Courses, Class Size, Undergraduate Students
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Mesutoglu, Canan; Baran, Evrim – Research in Science & Technological Education, 2021
Background: Teachers play a prominent role in facilitating the integration of engineering into school instruction. There is an extensive body of literature that has addressed the delivery of engineering teacher professional development programs. A few studies have summarized the features of engineering teacher professional development programs,…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Curriculum Implementation, STEM Education
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Kermani, Hengameh; Aldemir, Jale – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2018
The purpose of this study was to investigate how STEM-focused professional development training influence early childhood teachers' knowledge, beliefs, and pedagogies. Four pre-K teachers participated in this study. The data collected was qualitative in nature. Interview data were transcribed, coded and emerging themes were identified. The…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Program Effectiveness, Faculty Development, Early Childhood Teachers
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Boice, Katherine L.; Jackson, Justina R.; Alemdar, Meltem; Rao, Analía E.; Grossman, Sabrina; Usselman, Marion – Education Sciences, 2021
There is growing enthusiasm for STEAM education in preparing students for an increasingly complex world. However, implementing STEAM in the classroom can be challenging for educators, as it may require collaboration across disciplines, increased workload, and understanding the nature of STEAM integration. This paper details a mixed-methods…
Descriptors: Art Education, STEM Education, Professional Development, Teacher Education
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Cross, Chrissy; Hubbard, Keith; Beverly, Lesa; Gravatt, Dennis; Aul, Adrienne – Issues in Educational Research, 2020
Many educator preparation programs have formal and informal mentoring for pre-service teachers. However, few educator preparation programs continue the mentoring of mathematics teachers after graduation. This qualitative research examines the impact of a mentoring network for pre-service mathematics teachers embedded in the educator preparation…
Descriptors: Mentors, Social Networks, Preservice Teacher Education, Beginning Teachers
Edmunds, Julie A.; Dudley, William N.; Hutchins, Bryan C.; Arshavsky, Nina; Lewis, Karla – Grantee Submission, 2019
The STEM Early College Expansion Project is an effort to integrate STEM strategies with the early college model and implement this in comprehensive high schools. This report summarizes findings from two separate quasi-experimental impact studies of the model in Michigan and Connecticut. Results from Michigan showed statistically significant…
Descriptors: High Schools, STEM Education, Program Effectiveness, Higher Education
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