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  • Creating pathways for equity in STEM through family engagement: Highlighting the experiences of Hispanic/Latine youths
    Date: 11/15/2020
    Resource Category!: Peer-reviewed article
    In order for children to identify with STEM fields, it is essential that they feel there is a place within STEM for individuals “like them.” Unfortunately, this identification is difficult for Hispanic/Latine youths because of lack of representation and even stereotyping that is widespread in educational institutions in the United States. Some ... »
  • Take space, make space: how students use computer science to disrupt and resist marginalization in schools
    Date: 09/27/2020
    Resource Category!: Peer-reviewed article
    Overlaying Computer Science (CS) courses on top of inequitable schooling systems will not move us toward “CS for All.” This paper prioritizes the perspectives of minoritized students enrolled in high school CS classrooms across a large, urban school district in the Western United States, to help inform how CS can truly be for all. ... »
  • Interested, Disinterested, or Neutral: Exploring STEM Interest Profiles and Pathways in A Low-Income Urban Community
    Date: 03/30/2020
    Resource Category!: Peer-reviewed article
    To better understand STEM interest development during adolescence in an urban community, we examined how “STEM Interested” youth differed from disinterested youth and how interest changed over time from age 11/12 to 12/13. We surveyed youth to measure interest in four components of STEM, used cluster analysis to categorize youth based on STEM ... »
  • From Data Collectors to Data Producers: Shifting Students’ Relationship to Data
    Date: 11/12/2019
    Resource Category!: Peer-reviewed article
    This paper contributes a theoretical framework informed by historical, philosophical and ethnographic studies of science practice to argue that data should be considered to be actively produced, rather than passively collected. We further argue that traditional school science laboratory investigations misconstrue the nature of data and overly ... »
  • Equity and Evaluation in Informal STEM Education
    Date: 03/01/2019
    Resource Category!: Peer-reviewed article
    Informal STEM education institutions seek to engage broader cross sections of their communities to address inequities in STEM participation and remain relevant in a multicultural society. In this chapter, we advance the role that evaluation can play in helping the field adopt more inclusive practices and achieve greater equity than at present ... »
  • Resettled Burmese Refugee Youths' Identity Work in an Afterschool STEM Learning Setting
    Date: 01/02/2019
    Resource Category!: Peer-reviewed article
    Youth from non-dominant racial and linguistic backgrounds often have limited access to school science learning opportunities. Afterschool settings may provide learning environments in which they improve science knowledge and construct positive science identities. With this premise, our research team designs and provides a community-based ... »
  • A coding lab to increase science capital of school dropout teenagers
    Date: 11/12/2018
    Resource Category!: Peer-reviewed article
    We explored the potential of science to facilitate social inclusion with teenagers who had interrupted their studies before the terms set for compulsory education. The project was carried out from 2014 to 2018 within SISSA (International School for Advanced Studies), a scientific and higher education institution in physics, mathematics and ... »
  • Aloisio et al (2018), Pre-college urban ecology research mentoring: promoting broader participation in the field of ecology for an urban future
    Date: 11/01/2018
    Resource Category!: Peer-reviewed article
    The field of ecology is poised to substantially contribute to the creation of a socially and environmentally equitable urban future. To realize this contribution, the field of ecology must create strategies that ensure inclusion of underrepresented minorities so that a broad array of experiences and ideas collectively address challenges inherent ... »
  • An experimental study of a museum-based, science PD programme’s impact on teachers and their students
    Date: 04/09/2018
    Resource Category!: Peer-reviewed article
    We present results of an experimental study of an urban, museum-based science teacher PD programme. A total of 125 teachers and 1676 of their students in grades 4–8 were tested at the beginning and end of the school year in which the PD programme took place. Teachers and students were assessed on subject content knowledge and attitudes towards ... »
  • Paving the Road into College and STEM for Latino Students
    Date: 04/01/2018
    Resource Category!: Peer-reviewed article
    The purpose of this study is to thoroughly describe a program designed to strengthen the pipeline of Latino students into post-secondary science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education, and present evaluation data to assess multiyear effectiveness. The program includes a suite of interventions aimed at students and families, and ... »

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