For this week’s assignment, we will be researching the types of instruction needed to successfully implement a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) course in the K-12 setting through qualitative data studies. Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics teachers, workers, and students play a definitive role in the sustained growth of the U.S. economy and are also key components to the U.S’ future. The main goal of STEM is to create critical thinkers, increase science literacy, and develop a new wave of innovators.
Before we can focus on how educators implement STEM courses to K-12 students and what resources/tools they use to successfully teach needed and essential information to students, we must first distinguish qualitative from quantitative research. The main difference between qualitative and quantitative studies is that qualitative uses not only use the 5 basic senses of sight, smell, touch, hear, and taste, but also provides descriptive information from usually a small amount of subjects about what they observe in a research study. Quantitative research, however, uses numerical statistics on a much broader scale and gathers results based on a sample from the population of interest.
The success of the STEM educational research is to emphasize the need to study science, technology, engineering, and mathematics in order to produce an outcome that will be useful in the technology of the 21st century. Linked below are numerous articles I have found that will help further prove how STEM education can be taught successfully and diligently based on qualitative research. During my research, I found one article in particular that summarized the benefits of the STEM educational process. One study finds that interactive learning and case studies are the most-used teaching strategies by STEM academics, followed by adaptive teaching and E-learning teaching strategies. STEM academics are very passionate about using these learning tools to achieve the objective of STEM education, which would produce students that would have acquired the skills necessary to participate in civic and cultural affairs as well as produce economic success for the individual. Participants of the study believe that interactive learning would be the best choice to be implemented in STEM education. Outcome-based education (OBE) methods are highly used by instructors so that educators can vary their teaching strategies in the classroom and also serve as a guide for new STEM educators. Schools focus primarily on the STEM teaching philosophy in the hopes that their students will be better prepared for the high-demand technological jobs of the future.
- http://www.k12stemeducation.in.th/journal/article/view/18/17
- https://onlinelibrary-wiley-com.ez-proxy.brooklyn.cuny.edu/doi/full/10.1002/tea.21203
- https://link-springer-com.ez-proxy.brooklyn.cuny.edu/article/10.1007/s10763-017-9812-8
- https://journals-sagepub-com.ez-proxy.brooklyn.cuny.edu/doi/full/10.1177/0270467616633554
- https://go-gale-com.ez-proxy.brooklyn.cuny.edu/ps/i.do?&id=GALE|A523993540&v=2.1&u=cuny_broo39667&it=r&p=GIC&sw=w
- https://onlinelibrary-wiley-com.ez-proxy.brooklyn.cuny.edu/doi/full/10.1111/ssm.12185
- https://search-proquest-com.ez-proxy.brooklyn.cuny.edu/docview/1266493670?accountid=7286&rfr_id=info%3Axri%2Fsid%3Aprimo
- https://journals-sagepub-com.ez-proxy.brooklyn.cuny.edu/doi/full/10.3102/0002831215604045
- https://search-proquest-com.ez-proxy.brooklyn.cuny.edu/docview/1785759159?accountid=7286&rfr_id=info%3Axri%2Fsid%3Aprimo
- https://search-proquest-com.ez-proxy.brooklyn.cuny.edu/docview/1877350628?rfr_id=info%3Axri%2Fsid%3Aprimo&accountid=7286
- https://academicworks.cuny.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1419&context=gc_pubs
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3940461/
- https://www.e3s-conferences.org/articles/e3sconf/pdf/2018/40/e3sconf_iccee2018_04002.pdf
Communication Theory 