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Maelia, William Edward – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) instruction in the United States has been a major focus of educational reform since the release of the PISA rankings in 2000, which showed that the U.S. was behind many other countries on the international stage in the areas of Science and Math. Students are also leaving the "STEM…
Descriptors: STEM Education, High School Students, Learner Engagement, Mentors
Milbourne, Jeffrey David – ProQuest LLC, 2016
The purpose of this dissertation study was to explore the experiences of high school physics students who were solving complex, ill-structured problems, in an effort to better understand how self-regulatory behavior mediated the project experience. Consistent with Voss, Green, Post, and Penner's (1983) conception of an ill-structured problem in…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Secondary School Science, High School Students, Physics