Transdisciplinarity in STEM education: A critical review

MA Takeuchi, P Sengupta, MC Shanahan… - Studies in Science …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education
garnered significant attention in recent years and has emerged as a key field of research …

A systematic review of meta-analyses in special education: Exploring the evidence base for high-leverage practices

G Nelson, SC Cook, K Zarate… - Remedial and …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
It is crucial that special education teachers are equipped with the knowledge and skills
necessary to improve outcomes for students with disabilities. Despite federal legislation and …

Defining interdisciplinary collaboration based on high school teachers' beliefs and practices of STEM integration using a complex designed system

HH Wang, M Charoenmuang, NA Knobloch… - International Journal of …, 2020 - Springer
Background Teachers' beliefs play an important role in how teachers think about how
students learn, and how content should be organized and taught. Integrated STEM is …

Developing students' creative problem solving skills with inquiry-based STEM activity in an out-of-school learning environment

O Karamustafaoğlu, HM Pektaş - Education and Information Technologies, 2023 - Springer
There is a great need for applied studies at the K-12 level on how creative problem solving
skills can be developed in out-of-school environments and what kind of learning activities …

STEM integration in sixth grade: Desligning and constructing paper bridges

LD English, D King - International Journal of Science and Mathematics …, 2019 - Springer
In this article, we report on sixth-grade students' responses to a set of problem activities that
required the application of mathematics, science, and engineering knowledge in designing …

Learning while designing in a fourth-grade integrated STEM problem

LD English - International Journal of Technology and Design …, 2019 - Springer
This article reports on a 4th-grade problem activity implemented as part of a 4-year
longitudinal, design research study across grades 3–6. The activity integrated the four STEM …

The challenges of alignment for the Next Generation Science Standards

GW Fulmer, J Tanas, KA Weiss - Journal of Research in …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Alignment to the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) is essential in efforts
to interpret the standards and to compare curriculum, pedagogy, and assessment efforts with …

Elementary preservice teachers' challenges in designing and implementing socioscientific issues-based lessons

M Kinskey, D Zeidler - Journal of Science Teacher Education, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Socioscientific issues (SSI) have been found to improve scientific literacy skills among K—
12 students. Elementary preservice teachers (PSTs), however, are reluctant to implement …

Redesign or relabel? How a commercial curriculum and its implementation oversimplify key features of the NGSS

BR Lowell, K Cherbow, KL McNeill - Science Education, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The adoption of the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) requires many teachers to
drastically change their classroom instruction. Curricular materials offer a tool to support this …

Epistemological framing and novice elementary teachers' approaches to learning and teaching engineering design

KB Wendell, JES Swenson… - Journal of Research in …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
As engineering learning experiences increasingly begin in elementary school, elementary
teacher preparation programs are an important site for the study of teacher development in …