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Exploring Science Identity and Latent Factors of Student Gains in a Place-Based Marine Science CURE Designed to Provide Access to Hawai?i Students from Historically Marginalized Ethnicities
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Christine M. Ambrosino; Kelvin D. Gorospe; Lisa B. Limeri; Seaenna Correa-Garcia; Malia Ana J. Rivera – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2024
Hawai?i students, and in particular Native Hawaiian students, face high rates of attrition and low representation in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) academic majors and careers, but place-based Course-based Undergraduate Research Experiences (CUREs) such as the Research Experiences in Marine Science (REMS) summer program…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, STEM Education, Indigenous Populations, Place Based Education
Summer Camp of Mathematical Modeling in China
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Tian, Xiaoxi; Xie, Jinxing – Journal of Mathematics Education at Teachers College, 2013
The Summer Camp of Mathematical Modeling in China is a recently created experience designed to further Chinese students' academic pursuits in mathematical modeling. Students are given more than three months to research on a mathematical modeling project. Researchers and teams with outstanding projects are invited to the Summer Camp to present…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Summer Science Programs, Mathematical Models, Student Projects
Promoting Undergraduate STEM Education at a Historically Black College and University through Research Experience
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Fakayode, Sayo O.; Yakubu, Mamudu; Adeyeye, Olasumbo M.; Pollard, David A.; Mohammed, Abdul K. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2014
Diversification of our country's science talent pool is critically needed and can only be achieved by stimulating interest in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) among students from a wide variety of cultural backgrounds. However, motivating, increasing the number, improving retention rates, and graduation rates of…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Black Colleges, Undergraduate Students, Minority Group Students
A University Research Experience for Talented High School Students
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Varlashkin, Paul G.; And Others – Physics Teacher, 1978
Describes a six-week summer science institute for providing secondary students with research experience conducted at East Carolina University. (SL)
Descriptors: Institutes (Training Programs), Physics, Research, Science Education
Student Experiments Fly with the Shuttle.
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Saunders, Walter; And Others – Science Teacher, 1979
Describes various experiments which high school students are preparing, to be carried on NASA's 500 or more Space Shuttle flights in the 1980s. The project is intended to stimulate superior secondary school students. (SA)
Descriptors: Aerospace Education, Gifted, Science Experiments, Science Interests