The International Journal of STEM Education is a multidisciplinary journal in subject-content education that focuses on the study of teaching and learning in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). It is being established as a brand new, forward looking journal in the field of education. As a peer-reviewed journal, it is positioned to promote research and educational development in the rapidly evolving field of STEM education around the world. Our Infographic below focuses on the 4 hot topics you need to know.
Women in Science
Increasing STEM success: a near-peer mentoring program in the physical sciences Mentoring supports professional success in a myriad of fields; in the physical sciences, mentoring increases the retention of diverse groups of students. While physics education has made progress in classifying...
Anna M. Zaniewski and Daniel Reinholz | Article accesses: 1500+| Altmetric Explorer Score
- Gender, interest, and prior experience shape opportunities to learn programming in robotics competitions
Robotics competitions are increasingly popular and potentially provide an on-ramp to computer science, which is currently highly gender imbalanced. However, within competitive robotics teams, student participa...
Eben B. Witherspoon, Christian D. Schunn, Ross M. Higashi and Emily C. Baehr | Article accesses: 905+| Altmetric Explorer Score
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Engaging students with science and retaining interest
Examining study habits in undergraduate STEM courses from a situative perspective
A growing body of research in cognitive psychology and education research is illuminating which study strategies are effective for optimal learning, but little descriptive research focuses on how undergraduate...
Matthew T. Hora and Amanda K. Oleson |Article accesses: 689+| Altmetric Explorer Score
- Astrophotography, a portal for engaging non-STEM majors in science
We report the results of an undergraduate course in astrophotography designed to engage non-STEM majors in the natural sciences to train future amateur astronomers and citizen scientists. Over 200,000 students...
Mario A. De Leo–Winkler, Gabriela Canalizo and Gillian Wilson| Article accesses: 940+ | Altmetric Explorer Score
How to build up inclusive science-focused schools
- The eight essential elements of inclusive STEM high schools
Inclusive STEM (traditionally known to stand for “Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math”) high schools are emerging across the country as a mechanism for improving STEM education and getting more and dive...
Melanie LaForce, Elizabeth Noble, Heather King, Jeanne Century, Courtney Blackwell, Sandra Holt, Ahmed Ibrahim and Stephanie Loo | Article accesses: 2200+ | Altmetric Explorer Score
The teachers’ role in developing, opening, and nurturing an inclusive STEM-focused school
This study is about teachers’ collective activity during the development and initial year of a science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)-focused school in the USA. The target school of this study...
David Slavit, Tamara Holmlund Nelson and Kristin Lesseig | Article accesses: 3300+ | Altmetric Explorer Score
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Global urgency to improve STEM Education
- A conceptual framework for integrated STEM education
The global urgency to improve STEM education may be driven by environmental and social impacts of the twenty-first century which in turn jeopardizes global security and economic stability. The complexity of th...
Todd R. Kelley and J. Geoff Knowles | Article accesses: 7800+| Citations: 3 | Altmetric Attention Score
- STEM education K-12: perspectives on integration
This commentary was stimulated by Yeping Li’s first editorial (2014) citing one of the journal’s goals as adding multidisciplinary perspectives to current studies of single disciplines comprising the focus of ...
Lyn D. English | Article accesses: 5700+| Citations 3 | Altmetric Score
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