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Education & Educational Research
Paul J. Weinberg, Erika K. Sorensen-Weinberg
Summary: This article introduces a model of embodied cognition that supports student learning and mechanistic reasoning in science education through analogical mapping, participatory simulation, and mathematical description. The study demonstrates that students were able to construct analogical mappings between participatory simulation, physical system, and mathematical system, leading to improvements in mechanistic reasoning and explanation skills.
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Education & Educational Research
Tyler S. Love
Summary: Integrated STEM labs and makerspaces are common in various educational institutions, but safety concerns are often overlooked. This study investigates the impact of training on educators' safety perceptions and finds that it significantly influences their perceptions, especially for females who experience greater gains in safety self-efficacy.
JOURNAL OF SCIENCE EDUCATION AND TECHNOLOGY
(2022)
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Education & Educational Research
Tyler S. Love, Joshua P. Cysyk, Anilchandra Attaluri, Robert D. Tunks, Kevin Harter, Renee Sipos
Summary: Programming and automation are rapidly evolving and advancing STEM fields, but the integration of programming and interactive physical devices in biomedical contexts is often overlooked in secondary STEM education programs. This study examined the impact of professional development on high school science and technology and engineering teachers' perceptions and plans for teaching biomedical and computational thinking concepts. The findings showed that professional development had a significant influence on teachers' self-efficacy and intent to collaborate with educators outside of their content area, suggesting the importance of integrating more biomedical and physical computing instruction in secondary education.
JOURNAL OF SCIENCE EDUCATION AND TECHNOLOGY
(2023)
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Political Science
Jeffrey Nonnemacher, Sarah Wilson Sokhey
Summary: Undergraduate research labs have educational and professional benefits, but their potential to promote diversity and inclusion has been overlooked. This article discusses the experiences and lessons from launching an undergraduate research lab in a political science department and provides suggestions for other departments interested in starting their own labs.
PS-POLITICAL SCIENCE & POLITICS
(2022)
Review
Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary
Sarfraz Aslam, Atif Saleem, Teresa J. Kennedy, Tribhuwan Kumar, Khalida Parveen, Huma Akram, BaoHui Zhang
Summary: This study examines the current state of STEM education in Pakistan and identifies the research gaps in this field. The results show limited research, with a lack of focus on the engineering component of STEM education. The downward trend in STEM education research might be attributed to a lack of understanding among researchers about its importance. The study also provides recommendations for future research.
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Environmental Studies
K. Madarcos, M. Fortnam, L. Gajardo, T. Chaigneau, Rj Manucan, G. Cadigal, J. Matulac, L. Creencia, B. Gonzales, L. Evans
Summary: This study analyzes the factors and strategies for establishing marine zoning in low-income tropical areas and highlights the importance and influence of political economy on the implementation and outcomes of marine spatial planning. The study found that marine zoning can be durable when institutionalized in national law and adopted by local coordinating bodies, but it remains an externally-driven agenda. The study suggests that participatory decision-making and power distribution should be explicit from the early stages of marine spatial planning implementation in tropical areas to address conflicts and trade-offs.
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Education & Educational Research
Xiaohong Zhan, Daner Sun, Rui Song, Yuqin Yang, Ying Zhan
Summary: This study investigates the impact of the Engineering Integrated Science (EIS) curriculum on the development of junior secondary school students' engineering thinking skills. The results show that the EIS curriculum significantly improves students' systems thinking, critical thinking, and creative thinking. Gender and academic achievement also have an influence on students' engineering thinking.
THINKING SKILLS AND CREATIVITY
(2023)
Article
Mathematics
Paloma de las Cuevas, Maribel Garcia-Arenas, Nuria Rico
Summary: This paper summarizes the factors that influence students, particularly girls, to not study STEM degrees, based on a survey conducted in a secondary school in southern Spain. The results show that the number of women in technical courses decreases with the level of the course, the lack of role models does not affect girls' choices, and even if girls have good scores in STEM, they are less likely to choose engineering. Girls and women tend to see themselves as less capable of studying an engineering degree compared to boys and men.
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Education & Educational Research
Stephanie Lezotte
Summary: This study examined how three engineering teams conceptualize diversity and inclusion, revealing that even teams tasked with transformative change sometimes perpetuate normative conceptualizations of D&I, indicating there is still much work to be done.
JOURNAL OF DIVERSITY IN HIGHER EDUCATION
(2021)
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Environmental Studies
Antti Silvast, Govert Valkenburg
Summary: The centrality of energy for daily life emphasizes the need for attention to citizens' relations with energy, potentially requiring a specific concept of energy citizenship. Despite the growing academic literature on energy citizenship, the concept remains underdeveloped and narrowly focused, neglecting important social science insights on citizenship and energy governance. This study analyzes the current use of the concept in energy research literature and proposes a refined concept and a new research agenda for energy citizenship. The study highlights the importance of addressing the inclusion of individuals in energy citizenship initiatives, the interplay between democratic cultures and citizenship, and the diverse forms of citizenship within different energy infrastructure.
ENERGY RESEARCH & SOCIAL SCIENCE
(2023)
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Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Denise de Freitas, Genina Calafell, Alice Helena Campos Pierson
Summary: Social and environmental problems are increasing, highlighting the importance of addressing them in educational institutions to develop critical, responsible, and active citizens. The dialogue between science education and education for sustainability, known as Critical Science Education for Sustainability (CSES), is crucial for understanding complex and uncertain socio-environmental problems. This study presents a rubric, the Science, Technology and Society Assessment Tool, developed through a Delphi method-based investigation involving 37 international researchers. The rubric aims to analyze and guide critical science education in teaching, policies, and educational programs that support sustainability.
Review
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Juliana Fosua Gyasi, Lanqin Zheng, Yidan Zhou
Summary: This study reviewed 53 studies on STEM learning activities from 2011 to 2020, finding that most activities involved elementary students lasting 9 to 24 weeks, emphasizing mixed tasks and outcomes evaluation across STEM disciplines.
Article
Education & Educational Research
John D. Skrentny, Kevin Lewis
Summary: Research on STEM pipelines reveals that there is no clear boundary between education and work, on-the-job expertise requirements play a crucial role in the STEM workforce and persistence, and STEM-educated workers are prepared for but dissatisfied with non-STEM jobs.
Article
Education & Educational Research
Jennifer Schellinger, Lama Z. Jaber, Sherry A. Southerland
Summary: Integrating engineering into science education holds promise but also poses challenges, as students may not always align their understanding with the vision for integration outlined in current reform documents.
JOURNAL OF RESEARCH IN SCIENCE TEACHING
(2022)
Review
Dentistry, Oral Surgery & Medicine
S. Listl, R. Baltussen, A. Carrasco-Labra, F. C. Carrer, J. N. Lavis
Summary: Despite the need for improvement in oral health systems, progress in oral health system transformation has been slow. However, there is an opportunity for the oral health community to learn from previous successes and failures in evidence-informed health policy making.
JOURNAL OF DENTAL RESEARCH
(2023)