STEM Excellence and Leadership Program: Increasing the Level of STEM Challenge and Engagement for High-Achieving Students in Economically Disadvantaged Rural Communities
| Autor: | Susan G. Assouline, Erin E. Lane, Duhita Mahatmya, Lori Ihrig |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
| Předmět: |
Program evaluation
Medical education Science instruction media_common.quotation_subject Multimethodology 05 social sciences 050301 education 050109 social psychology Focus group Education Disadvantaged Excellence Coursework ComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDEDUCATION 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Rural area Psychology 0503 education media_common |
| Zdroj: | Journal for the Education of the Gifted. 41:24-42 |
| ISSN: | 2162-9501 0162-3532 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/0162353217745158 |
| Popis: | High-achieving students in economically disadvantaged, rural schools lack access to advanced coursework necessary to pursue science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) educational and employment goals at the highest levels, contributing to the excellence gap. Out-of-school STEM programming offers one pathway to students’ talent development. Using a concurrent triangulation mixed-methods research design, this study was conducted to evaluate the experiences of 78 high-achieving students and their 32 teachers, participating in an extracurricular, school-based, STEM talent development program for rural students from economically disadvantaged communities. Findings suggest that students and teachers expressed satisfaction with program participation and that they thought more creatively and critically about their work. Results also showed that students’ perceptions of the mathematics and science activities were significantly different, which informs ways to improve programming for future high-achieving, rural students. These findings expand the literature supporting the use of informal STEM education environments for underserved gifted populations to increase engagement in and access to challenging curricula. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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