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Direct linkEmily N. Cyr; Kathryn M. Kroeper; Hilary B. Bergsieker; Tara C. Dennehy; Christine Logel; Jennifer R. Steele; Rita A. Knasel; W. Tyler Hartwig; Priscilla Shum; Stephanie L. Reeves; Odilia Dys-Steenbergen; Amrit Litt; Christopher B. Lok; Taylor Ballinger; Haemi Nam; Crystal Tse; Amanda L. Forest; Mark Zanna; Sheryl Staub-French; Mary Wells; Toni Schmader; Stephen C. Wright; Steven J. Spencer – Child Development, 2024
Girls and women face persistent negative stereotyping within STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics). This field intervention was designed to improve boys' perceptions of girls' STEM ability. Boys (N = 667; mostly White and East Asian) aged 9-15 years in Canadian STEM summer camps (2017-2019) had an intervention or control…
Descriptors: Females, Womens Education, STEM Education, Summer Programs
Nicole Lewis – ProQuest LLC, 2024
There is a growing demand for a Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) trained workforce in the United States. In order to remain globally competitive, the US needs to increase the STEM workforce not only in numbers but also diversity. Colleges and universities throughout the US need to not only gain STEM majors but retain them…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Transitional Programs, Summer Programs, Biology
Sperling, Alissa Rose – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this mixed-methods study was to explore the impact of informal STEM education on underrepresented middle school girls. The study took place within the context of the EUREKA! summer program, a collaboration between Drexel University's Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering and Girls Inc. of Philadelphia and…
Descriptors: Informal Education, STEM Education, Disproportionate Representation, Middle School Students
Beena Ajmera; Sarah Crary – Journal of STEM Education: Innovations and Research, 2023
Through funding from the National Science Foundation to create a Research Experience for Teachers site at North Dakota State University, the authors provided summer research experiences to current secondary (6th to 12th grade) educators to improve their understanding of the civil engineering field and develop new curriculum modules for their…
Descriptors: Secondary School Teachers, Summer Programs, Civil Engineering, Curriculum Development
Download full textCaesar R. Jackson; Dawayne Whittington; Tanina Bradley – Journal of STEM Outreach, 2024
Sustained innovation and economic strength of the U.S depends on a greater participation of underrepresented minorities in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). University-based outreach programs that serve African American and other minority populations should do more to infuse invention education in activities that engage…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Design, Thinking Skills, STEM Education
Üçgül, Memet; Altiok, Serhat – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2022
Creativity, critical thinking, communication and collaboration are thought to be the core skills that will enable students to be successful in the future. Economic and social development of a nation is associated with the individuals' such new skills, which are commonly referred as the twenty-first-century skills. However, the educational methods…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Robotics, 21st Century Skills, Camps
Holly Nolan Chavez – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study examined opportunities for enhancing transfer outcomes for community college students through summer research opportunities at a university. It emphasizes the significance of academic capital, derived from Bourdieu's cultural capital theory, in facilitating successful transfers. By offering ten-week paid summer research opportunities at…
Descriptors: Student Research, Internship Programs, STEM Education, Community College Students
Jura, Matthew; Gerhardt, Ira – PRIMUS, 2022
In summer 2013, Manhattan College introduced an online summer "bridge to calculus" course for incoming first-year students in science, engineering, and mathematics education who marginally did not receive a calculus recommendation based on a mathematics placement test. In this paper, we describe the development of the bridge course and…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Program Evaluation, Program Effectiveness, Calculus
Cohodes, Sarah R.; Ho, Helen; Robles, Silvia C. – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2022
The federal government and many individual organizations have invested in programs to support diversity in the STEM pipeline, including STEM summer programs for high school students, but there is little rigorous evidence of their efficacy. We fielded a randomized controlled trial to study a suite of such programs targeted to underrepresented high…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, STEM Education, Disproportionate Representation, Student Diversity
Wiest, Lynda R., Ed.; Crawford-Ferre, Heather Glynn, Ed.; Sanchez, Jafeth E., Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2021
Vol. II: Short-Term Programs features eight OST STEM programs for females from across the United States that run one to three days in length, in most cases, a single day. In this book, the chapter authors describe their programs, the effectiveness of those programs, and practical implications of their program evaluation data. This book series is…
Descriptors: STEM Education, After School Programs, Females, Program Effectiveness
Grineski, Sara E.; Morales, Danielle X.; Collins, Timothy W. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2023
COVID-19 created unprecedented challenges for college students, highlighting the need to provide educational contexts that foster well-being. Summer undergraduate research experiences (SUREs) constitute a high-impact practice, yet little systematic knowledge exists about how the first surge of COVID-19 influenced undergraduate researchers'…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Well Being, Undergraduate Students
Helen Walter; Elisabeth Wade – Journal of STEM Education: Innovations and Research, 2024
The United States faces challenges in retaining students of color (SoC), women, and nonbinary individuals in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM). This study explores the impact of a residential bridge program on STEM persistence for these groups. Participants, who were all women or nonbinary individuals and were 56% SoC and 30%…
Descriptors: Minority Group Students, Females, LGBTQ People, STEM Education
Faqryza Ab Latif – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this study is to investigate how a virtual mentored research program, the National Summer Undergraduate Research Project (NSURP), affects sense of belonging among underserved students in science fields. Examining the effects of virtual research programs can contribute to the body of research on ways to instill sense of belonging…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Sense of Community, STEM Education, Electronic Learning
Bekene Bedada, Tola; Machaba, France – Cogent Education, 2022
This study explores the effectiveness of the GeoGebra on Grade 12 students' success in making associations between the representations of trigonometric functions and the interpretation of graphs. A technology-oriented classroom is a commanding and accommodating tool in mathematics instruction in understanding mathematical concepts. A…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Grade 12, High School Students, Trigonometry
P. Abena Anyidoho; Dorinda J. Gallant – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2025
Benefits of summer bridge and early arrival experiences include the academic and social integration of incoming first-year students into their chosen institutions. The unprecedented nature of the COVID-19 pandemic created opportunities to re-imagine delivery of activities and engagement of incoming first-year students in summer bridge and early…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Transitional Programs, STEM Education, Minority Group Students
