Journal of Research in Innovative Teaching & Learning: Volume 13 Issue 1 , Open Access

Mathematics and STEM teacher development for flipped education

Robert Weinhandl, Zsolt Lavicza, Tony Houghton

Flipped classroom approaches (FCA) are an educational innovation that could increase students' learning outcomes in, and their enjoyment of, mathematics or STEM education. To…

The impact of STEAM integration on preservice teachers' disposition and knowledge

Shuhua An

This study intended to provide such an opportunity to preservice teachers with a project-based learning (PBL) approach and an inquiry-based pedagogy to engage them in learning…

STEAM education: student learning and transferable skills

Marja G. Bertrand, Immaculate K. Namukasa

Globally, interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary learning in schools has become an increasingly popular and growing area of interest for educational reform. This prompts…

STEM challenge: two years of community-engaged engineering

Rebecca Hite, Jessica Spott, Levi Johnson, Lane Sobehrad

Community-engaged partnerships have the ability to combine expertise and resources to enhance the local STEM learning ecosystem, by engaging the actors in communities that can…

Faculty support and student engagement in undergraduate engineering

Denise M. Wilson, Lauren Summers, Joanna Wright

This study investigated how behavioral and emotional forms of engagement are associated with faculty support and student-faculty interactions among engineering students.

Improving perceptions of STEM careers through informal learning environments

Katherine N. Vela, Rachelle M. Pedersen, Macie N. Baucum

This paper investigated the impact a camp on informal science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) had on students' perceptions of STEM fields and careers.

International comparison of K-12 STEM teaching practices

Rachael L. Tawbush, Sabrina D. Stanley, Tye G. Campbell, Melissa A. Webb

This study analyzed articles from India, Italy and Singapore regarding how science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education is conceptualized in the K-12 setting…

Addressing STEM in the context of teacher education

Fuchang Liu

This article discusses several issues concerning STEM in the context of teacher education.

Success for all: fostering early childhood STEM identity

Alyse C. Hachey

This paper discusses early childhood classrooms as powerful spaces for identity work and, more specifically, as a place (or not) for supporting early STEM identity development. It…

An integrated approach to teaching and learning nanotechnology: the Omni Nano model

Marco Curreli, Sladjana Sandy Rakich

The purpose of this commentary is to describe how Omni Nano has designed and implemented a model for teaching Nanotechnology to high school students.

Multiple perspectives of mathematics in STEM among preservice teachers

Megan Burton, Victoria Cardullo, L. Octavia Tripp