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Direct linkKing, Natalie S.; Pringle, Rose M. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2019
This study presents the interpretations and perceptions of Black girls who participated in I AM STEM--a community-based informal science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) program. Using narrative inquiry, participants generated detailed accounts of their informal and formal STEM learning experiences. Critical race methodology…
Descriptors: African American Students, Females, STEM Education, Student Attitudes
Phamduy, Paul; Leou, Mary; Milne, Catherine; Porfiri, Maurizio – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2017
Informal science learning aims to improve public understanding of STEM. Free-choice learners can be engaged in a wide range of experiences, ranging from watching entertaining educational videos to actively participating in hands-on projects. Efforts in informal science learning are often gauged by their ability to elicit interaction, to foster…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Robotics, Informal Education, Science Instruction
Dani, Danielle E.; Hartman, Sara L.; Helfrich, Sara R. – New Educator, 2018
Facilitating successful informal STEM learning experiences is essential for building knowledge and comfort with STEM content for children and teachers alike. Informal learning experiences are by nature hands-on and interdisciplinary and provide play-based, real-world, authentic learning experiences. This article describes what elementary teacher…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Science Teachers, Informal Education, Hands on Science
Wever Frerichs, Saundra; Pearman Fenton, Melissa Sue; Wingert, Kerri – Adult Learning, 2018
Quality out-of-school time (OST) programs for youth are limited by a lack of professional learning opportunities for staff and volunteers that are based upon solid learning theory, affordable, and scalable for a diverse field. The Click2Science project is an innovative model for professional learning experiences that support staff and volunteers…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Professional Education, Models, Out of School Youth
Chadwick, Cary; Dickson, David; Arnold, Chester; Cisneros, Laura; Volin, John; Campbell, Todd; Moss, David; Rodriguez, Laura – Journal of Extension, 2018
University of Connecticut Extension educators are engaged in a new program that fosters intergenerational informal science, technology, engineering, and math learning through combining geospatial technology and conservation science. Conservation Training Partnerships (CTP) is a program that brings together adult conservation leaders and…
Descriptors: Extension Education, Conservation Education, Intergenerational Programs, STEM Education
Pattison, Scott A.; Gontan, Ivel; Ramos-Montañez, Smirla; Moreno, Lauren – Science Education, 2018
As part of ongoing efforts to support a diverse and robust engineering workforce and ensure that children and adults from all communities have the engineering and design thinking skills to succeed in a science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)-rich world, identity has become a growing focus of research and education efforts. To…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Engineering Education, Design, Thinking Skills
Download full textMaureen Munn; Joan Griswold; Helene Starks; Stephanie M. Fullerton; Conan Viernes; Thelma Ann Sipe; Mike Brown; Craig Dwight; Randy Knuth; Sheldon Levia – Journal of STEM Outreach, 2018
For people living in rural communities, opportunities to meet STEM professionals and visit the science centers, museums, zoos, and aquariums usually found in urban areas are often limited because of geographical isolation, socioeconomic disadvantage, and in many cases, language barriers. To address this issue, two University of Washington (UW)…
Descriptors: Rural Areas, STEM Education, Inclusion, Access to Education
Rethman, Callie; Perry, Jonathan; Donaldson, Jonan Phillip; Choi, Daniel; Erukhimova, Tatiana – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2021
Physics outreach programs provide a critical context for informal experiences that promote the transition from new student to contributing physicist. Prior studies have suggested a positive link between participation in informal physics outreach programs and the development of a student's physics identity. In this study, we adopt a student-focused…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Outreach Programs, Program Effectiveness, Physics
Nacu, Denise; Flores, Evelyn; Baran, Aneta; Keoborakot, Nina; Pinkard, Nichole – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2018
Research has demonstrated the importance of the learning support roles adults play to help youth navigate into areas of interest and career pathways. This study focuses on brokering which involves connecting youth to people, resources, programs, and other learning opportunities. We examined mentor practices in a 10-week out-of-school STEM program…
Descriptors: Capacity Building, Mentors, Informal Education, Facilitators (Individuals)
M. David Burghardt; Deborah Hecht – International Journal of Designs for Learning, 2020
This paper examines the differences and challenges encountered when trying to create informal blended (virtual and hands-on) engineering design STEM activities. It contrasts the creation of STEM activities for formal and informal learning environments, stressing that the differences extend far beyond the length of the activity or depth of any…
Descriptors: Informal Education, STEM Education, Science Activities, Youth Clubs
Todd, Brandy L.; Zvoch, Keith – International Journal of Science Education, 2019
This study investigates the impact of an informal science outreach programme built around theories of identity formation and self-efficacy on middle school girls' science affinities. A lottery-based, randomised control trial was used to identify programme effects on four science affinity outcomes: science interests, efficacy with science, science…
Descriptors: Science Education, STEM Education, Informal Education, Intervention
Champion, Dionne N. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This dissertation is an ethnographic study of the dance makerspace, a learning environment designed to support STEM engagement through making and embodied experience for a group of African American youth dancers. It looks at how participants in a 4-week summer camp program at an urban creative arts center-turned-makerspace, constructed embodied…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Art Education, Interdisciplinary Approach, Dance
Hurst, Michelle A.; Polinsky, Naomi; Haden, Catherine A.; Levine, Susan C.; Uttal, David H. – Society for Research in Child Development, 2019
In recent decades, educators and policymakers in the United States have increased their focus on Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) learning opportunities both in school and in informal learning environments outside of school. Informal STEM learning can take place in varied settings and involves a variety of STEM domains…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Educational Policy, STEM Education, Educational Opportunities
Semmens, Kathryn; Fosbenner, Lauren; Maxfield, Keri; Carr, Rachel Hogan; Ramage, Joan; O'Leary, Jim; Larouche, Christine; Hayward, Jeff; Henderson, Maurice – Journal of Geoscience Education, 2021
The next generation of STEM professionals needs to understand interconnections between human and Earth systems to be able to address complex, multifaceted, emerging global environmental issues. Interest in STEM fields and professions can begin in middle school. To educate and connect middle school students to Earth systems and STEM fields, we…
Descriptors: Earth Science, Environmental Education, STEM Education, Informal Education
Marriott, Lisa K.; Link, Aaron Raz; Anitori, Roberto; Blackwell, Ernest; Blas, Andrea; Brock, Jennifer; Burke, Tracey; Burrows, Julia A.; Cabrera, Alexis P.; Helsham, Derek; Liban, Lorna B.; Mackiewicz, Marilyn R.; Maruyama, Mika; Milligan-Myhre, Kathryn C. A.; Pangelinan, Perry J. C.; Hattori-Uchima, Margaret; Reed, Russell; Simon, Benjamin E.; Solomon, Beylul; Trinidad, Alma M. O.; Wyatt, Letisha R.; Covarrubia, Alonso Delgado; Zell, Adrienne; Adrienne, Thomas E.; Morris, Cynthia; Crespo, Carlos J. – Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2021
Research experience provides critical training for new biomedical research scientists. Students from underrepresented populations studying science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) are increasingly recruited into research pathways to diversify STEM fields. However, support structures outside of research settings designed to help…
Descriptors: Biomedicine, Medical Research, Disproportionate Representation, STEM Education
