, published inEnglish between 2011 and 2023, and relevant to the research question. A content analysismethod was applied to examine the articles (n = 27) that satisfied the inclusion criteria. PSTs'perceptions of integrated STEM education were influenced, according to preliminaryfindings, by the following variables: (a) prior knowledge and experiences with STEMeducation; (b) beliefs about STEM education; (c) perceived benefits and challenges ofintegrated STEM education; (d) available support and resources; and (e) professionaldevelopment opportunities. The paper also addresses the theoretical and educationalimplications of the results for the planning and implementation of integrated STEMprofessional development programs for policymakers and
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use the power they generate to benefit their community. They also collect, analyze, andshare data with researchers and students at other schools, making recommendations for changesin agriPV design and/or protocols based on results. Along the way, students are supported bytheir teacher and an interdisciplinary team of university researchers and industry partners. In this session, we share teaching-learning resources that engage students in agri-PVcitizen science, co-created by our team members and distributed through the SPV Lab website.Our aim is to help teachers (a) introduce students to agrivoltaics engineering research and thesymbiotic relationship between plants and solar panels from a citizen science perspective; (b)develop
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attended public or private school. Interviews explored parents’perspective on (a) what they consider in purchasing kits/activities to engage their child(ren) inSTEM concepts and practices, (b) likes and dislikes, (c) barriers and/or challenges to engaging inSTEM activities, and (d) suggestions on how to improve the typical STEM kit. Parents indicatedthat their children enjoyed STEM activities that were hands-on (e.g., involved building), allowedfor imagination and creativity, could be completed independently, and provided an end productthat did something. Additionally, parents mentioned a number of barriers to using such kits,including cost, lack of expertise in STEM concepts, and time (mostly in competition with otherinterests and extracurricular
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wellas student-generated artifacts such as designs and project plans. In STEMcyclist, students learnabout and through bikes and biking in an environment where they can interact with others whoshare their language background and the common experience of being part of the community inBuffalo.From our conceptual understanding, and under the assumption of an asset-based approach,engaging in engineering through bikes and biking in informal learning environments supportsfour interrelated learning goals: (a) applying engineering design principles and scientificpractices through bike rebuilding, (b) understanding the biomechanics of bikes and biking, (c)using the bike as a medium to explore STEM phenomena in the community, and (d) supportingyouth STEM
nature of CT and recognize that choicesof tools, parameters, and criteria may enter bias into uses of engineering in society.AcknowledgementsThe ideas and thinking in the paper have been shaped through close collaboration withMathWorks staff including Mary Dzaugis and Emma Smith Zbarsky. A generous grant fromMathWorks also supports this work.ReferencesAho, A. (2011). Ubiquity symposium: Computation and computational thinking. Ubiquity, 2011 (January), 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1145/1922681.1922682Ardito, G., Czerkawski, B., & Scollins, L. (2020). Learning computational thinking together: Effects of gender differences in collaborative middle school robotics program. TechTrends, 64(3), 373–387. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11528-019-00461
Paper ID #46475Can I Be An Engineer? Factors Influencing Women’s Decisions to PursueUndergraduate Engineering Studies in Lebanon (Fundamental)Rasha Malaeb, American University of Beirut Rasha Malaeb (she/her) is a Computer and Computer Engineering student at the American University of Beirut. She is a research assistant and event coordinator at the Pipeline and Mentorship Initiative at the American University of Beirut where she works on student support-projects as the Peer2Peer Mentorship . Rasha is an applicant of the Women Leader’s in Engineering Full Scholarship and her research is focused on enhancing women’s
cultural needs of students.Future work regarding the emphasis on science teachers as agents for change will focus on thein-school context of the action research projects. In this regard, qualitative and quantitative datawill be reported on novice teachers' engineering and cultural self-efficacy for teachingengineering processes.16 References[1] T. R. Guskey, "Professional development and teacher change," Teachers and Teaching, vol.8, (3), pp. 381-391, 2002.[2] B. Huang, M. S. Jong, Y. Tu, G. Hwang, C. S. Chai, and M. Y. Jiang, "Trends and exemplarypractices of STEM teacher professional development programs in K-12 contexts: A systematicreview of empirical studies," Comput. Educ., pp. 104577, 2022.[3] J. A