Miorelli, J., & Moskal, B. M., & Dwyer, J. (2015, June), Impacts of Outreach on Entering College Students' Interests in STEM  Paper presented at 2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Seattle, Washington. 10.18260/p.24233

\bibitem{asee_peer_24233}
  Miorelli, J., \& Moskal, B. M., \& Dwyer, J. (2015, June), \emph{Impacts of Outreach on Entering College Students' Interests in STEM}
  Paper presented at 2015 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Seattle, Washington.
  10.18260/p.24233

Jonathan Miorelli, Barbara M. Moskal, and Jerry Dwyer.  "Impacts of Outreach on Entering College Students' Interests in STEM".  2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Seattle, Washington, 2015, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2015.  https://peer.asee.org/24233 Internet.  25 Apr, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_24233}
  Jonathan Miorelli, Barbara M. Moskal, and Jerry Dwyer.
  "Impacts of Outreach on Entering College Students' Interests in STEM".
  \emph{2015 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Seattle, Washington, 2015, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2015.
  https://peer.asee.org/24233 Internet.  25 Apr, 2024

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AB  -        Fundamental Research: Impacts of Outreach on Entering College                Students Interests in STEM (Fundamental)The STEM acronym – which stands for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics –has become well known and frequently used in both the media and education. The STEMsubjects are considered to be fundamental to a 21st century education. Most colleges anduniversities, regardless of their Carnegie classification, offer outreach programs in STEM, whichare designed to draw student interest to these important fields. The National Science Foundation(NSF) has also drawn attention to the importance of outreach programs by requiring that NSFfunded research projects include a “Broader Impact” statement. Often, these statements discusskindergarten through high school outreach. The primary target of many of these programs arepre-college students who have been traditionally underserved in the STEM fields, includingfemale, minority, economically disadvantaged and disabled students. The following researchquestions emerge from these outreach efforts:      How effective have these outreach programs been in drawing participating pre-colleges       students’ interest to completing degrees in STEM?      What elements of such outreach programs are most effective for drawing the participating       pre-college students’ interests to completing degrees in STEM?The study, which will be discussed in the proposed article, was completed at a large researchinstitution, in which the total enrollment exceeds thirty thousand students. Over a three-yearperiod, all freshman entering STEM degree programs were invited to complete an online survey.This survey solicited the students’ experiences in pre-college STEM programs and the impactthat these programs had on their choice of college degrees. The proposed paper will discuss theoutcomes of this survey as they relate to the research questions.One outcome of this investigation was the identification of an emerging trend: the percentage ofminority students reporting an increased interest in STEM fields due to involvement with pre-collegiate STEM programs improved at this university among entering freshman from 52% in2012 to 81% in 2014. Yet, there was no identifiable difference in the demographics of theresponding minority student population. This same trend was not witnessed for nonminoritystudents. The student self-report surveys further indicated that there was an increase in thestudent perceived benefit of pre-college participation in outreach activities that included teamcollaboration and real world applications for the group of students responding in 2014. Theproposed article will discuss this trend and its apparent impact on students’ interest, enrollmentand pursuit of STEM degrees.
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