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Undergraduate STEM Student Communication Skills: Exploring Ways to Improve the Alignment between Academic Outcomes and Employer Needs
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Robin Ann Cass – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Undergraduate STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) students are graduating with insufficient communication skills, thereby diminishing their employability and upward socio-economic mobility. The purpose of this action research study was to explore ways of improving the alignment between academic outcomes and employer needs related to…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Communication Skills, Undergraduate Students, Education Work Relationship
Hidden Student Voice: A Curriculum of a Middle School Science Class Heard through Currere
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Crooks, Kathleen Schwartz – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Students have their own lenses through which they view school science and the students' views are often left out of educational conversations which directly affect the students themselves. Pinar's (2004) definition of curriculum as a "complicated conversation" implies that the class' voice is important, as important as the teacher's voice, to the…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Secondary School Science, Science Education, Learner Engagement
Social Class and the STEM Career Pipeline an Ethnographic Investigation of Opportunity Structures in a High-Poverty versus Affluent High School
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Nikischer, Andrea B. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This research investigates science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) high school opportunity structures, including student experiences with math and science course sequences and progress, college guidance and counseling, and STEM extracurricular activities (Weis and Eisenhart, 2009), specifically related to STEM fields and career and…
Descriptors: Social Class, STEM Education, High School Students, Student Experience