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Rhonda F. Weaver – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this study was to provide insight related to health sciences educators' preparedness for facilitating a multigenerational healthcare classroom consisting of traditional learners, adult learners, and students enrolled in an early college cohort. The researcher implemented an explanatory, sequential, mixed methods design for data…
Descriptors: Health Sciences, Teaching Skills, Dual Enrollment, College Students
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Maia Masamoto; Courtney Stevens; Lucas Ettinger – Anatomical Sciences Education, 2024
Despite attempts to diversify healthcare workplaces and education, racial and ethnic minorities (REM) remain underrepresented in these fields. This study investigated changes in high school students' health science interest following a single exposure, hands-on anatomy laboratory visit. One hundred and eighty-eight high school students…
Descriptors: High School Students, Student Attitudes, Health Sciences, Attitude Change
Michael Gottfried; Jennifer A. Freeman; Taylor K. Odle; Jay S. Plasman; Daniel Klasik; Shaun M. Dougherty – Grantee Submission, 2023
Background/Context: Career and technical education (CTE) coursework in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medical/health (STEMM) fields has been supported by policy makers as a way to align the secondary-to-postsecondary-to-career pipeline. Yet, in the research, the focus has been on whether STEMM CTE coursetaking in high school…
Descriptors: STEM Education, STEM Careers, Secondary School Curriculum, High School Students
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Michael Gottfried; Jennifer A. Freeman; Taylor K. Odle; Jay S. Plasman; Daniel Klasik; Shaun M. Dougherty – Teachers College Record, 2023
Background/Context: Career and technical education (CTE) coursework in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medical/health (STEMM) fields has been supported by policy makers as a way to align the secondary-to-postsecondary-to-career pipeline. Yet, in the research, the focus has been on whether STEMM CTE coursetaking in high school…
Descriptors: STEM Education, STEM Careers, Secondary School Curriculum, High School Students
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Kemp, Kyeorda; Swanberg, Stephanie M.; Kamel-ElSayed, Suzan; Grogan, James; Williams, Tiffany; Reed-Hendon, Caryn – Journal of STEM Education: Innovations and Research, 2021
Pipeline programs in health and biomedical sciences have gained attention as students who engage in these programs are more likely to enter into associated fields. In 2012, to support the mission of Oakland University William Beaumont (OUWB) School of Medicine, the Future Physicians Summer Enrichment Program (FPSEP) was launched for regional high…
Descriptors: High School Students, Summer Programs, STEM Education, Health Sciences
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Meyer, Edgar R.; Williams, Sutton; Conway, Marianne; Notebaert, Andrew – HAPS Educator, 2018
The growing movement in STEM education is popularizing active learning, which has benefits for high school and undergraduate students, especially those in rural areas with limited resources. In Mississippi, daunting health disparities in incidence of stroke, cardiovascular disease, type II diabetes, and obesity warrant the implementation of…
Descriptors: Anatomy, Outreach Programs, High School Students, Undergraduate Students
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Michaels, Christopher; Liu, Leping – International Journal of Technology in Teaching and Learning, 2020
Career and Technical Education (CTE) is a popular trend in education due to the increased demand from American citizens to include CTE opportunities in schools along with federal funding to build new CTE programs and improve existing ones. Schools are tasked to improve student achievement. Testing performance is a central process to demonstrate…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Differences, High School Graduates, Vocational Education
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Alkushi, Abdulmohsen; Althewini, Abdulaziz – International Education Studies, 2020
Admission criteria can be used to predict Saudi student performance in college, but significant differences across several studies exists. This study explores the predictive power of admission criteria for college assignment using King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences as a model. Scores from high school and standardized tests were…
Descriptors: Predictive Validity, Admission Criteria, College Admission, Grades (Scholastic)
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Plasman, Jay – Journal of Career and Technical Education, 2019
One of the stated goals of career and technical education (CTE) is to improve the labor market outcomes of participants. One population of students for which concentration CTE may be particularly beneficial is those who determine they will not pursue postsecondary education. By exploring how occupational concentration--defined as earning three or…
Descriptors: Wages, Career Education, Technical Education, Employment Potential
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Boerner, Heather – Community College Journal, 2016
In this article, the author describes the college-school district collaboration called the "Academy of Health Sciences," an innovative approach to learning that located a high school on the college campus and gave students the opportunity to earn a college degree, too. The Academy of Health Sciences is just one of a slew of ideas that…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Health Sciences, College Role, High Schools
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Chester, Ann; McKendall, Sherron; McKendall, Alan; Mann, Michael; Kristjansson, Alfgeir; Branch, Robert; Hornbeck, Bethany; Morton, Catherine; Kuhn, Summer; Branch, Feon Smith; Barnes-Rowland, Charlene – Journal of STEM Outreach, 2020
The Health Sciences and Technology Academy's, (HSTA) goals are to increase college attendance of African American, financially disadvantaged, first generation college and rural Appalachian youth and increase health-care providers and STEM professionals in underserved communities. Students enter in the 9th grade and remain in HSTA four years. They…
Descriptors: Health Sciences, STEM Education, After School Programs, Clubs
Chester, Ann; McKendall, Sherron; McKendall, Alan; Mann, Michael; Kristjansson, Alfgeir; Branch, Robert; Hornbeck, Bethany; Morton, Catherine; Kuhn, Summer; Branch, Feon Smith; Barnes-Rowland, Charlene – Grantee Submission, 2020
The Health Sciences and Technology Academy's, (HSTA) goals are to increase college attendance of African American, financially disadvantaged, first generation college and rural Appalachian youth and increase health-care providers and STEM professionals in underserved communities. Students enter in the 9th grade and remain in HSTA four years. They…
Descriptors: Health Sciences, STEM Education, After School Programs, Youth Clubs
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Megan Macklin; Patrick Jagoda; Ian B. Jones; Melissa Gilliam – Journal of STEM Outreach, 2018
It is a well-documented fact that women and minorities are currently underrepresented in STEM higher education degree programs and careers. As an outreach measure to these populations, we established the Hexacago Health Academy (HHA), an ongoing summer program. Structured as an informal learning environment with a strong youth initiated mentoring…
Descriptors: Game Based Learning, Health Education, STEM Education, Females
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Saleh, Suha M.; Hamed, Kastro M. – Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 2014
Service-learning has been used to integrate an educational experience with community outreach, particularly among underserved populations. In this study, college students enrolled in a health science major were engaged in an educational outreach initiative with a group of students from a high school with a predominantly minority population. The…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Partnerships in Education, Minority Group Students, Health Sciences
West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission, 2018
West Virginia Code §18B-1D-8 statutorily mandates the West Virginia Higher Education Report Card. This annual accountability report provides year-end higher education statistics for both of the state's higher education systems, the West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission (Commission) and West Virginia Council for Community and Technical…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Accountability, Community Colleges, Two Year College Students
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