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STEM Education
Career Search Self-Efficacy and STEM Major Persistence
Autumn Cabell discusses career search self-efficacy as a predictor of STEM major persistence in a sample of undergraduate…
Makerspaces in primary school settings
Matt Bower discusses how maker activities using 3D design and 3D printing technology could enhance learning and teaching…
Exploring a Conative Perspective on Mathematical Engagement
Gerald Goldin discusses the conative, which encompasses individuals’ experienced needs, goals, desires, and meaningful purposes, and how these are…
Physical Science Teacher Skills in a Conceptual Explanation
David Geelan discusses the history of concepts of explanation in science and in science teaching, and reports research…
Integrating STEM in Higher Education: Addressing Global Issues
Lindsey Conner addresses the increasing need for collaboration, innovation and solution-focussed skills by looking at examples of cutting-edge…
Introducing Changemaking Engineering into an Operations Research Course
Rick Olson discusses adapting traditional engineering classes with new materials that address this changemaking theme. Image courtesy of Rick Olson.
Mixed digital approaches for Teaching Chemical Techniques
Sarah Cresswell discusses a user-focused strategy to improve students’ foundational skill and proficiency with chemical laboratory techniques and instrumentation
Preparing Teachers of Science for 2020 and Beyond
Patricia Morrell describes changes to the format and theoretical substance of the 2020 Standards for Science Teacher Preparation…
Framing and Teaching Nature of Science as Questions
Michael Clough argues that framing and teaching the Nature of Science (NOS) as questions more accurately reflects the…
Inquiry, problem, context and industry based laboratories
Stephen George-Williams discusses whether Inquiry, problem, context and industry based laboratories were better contextualised, more open to decision…
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