Event Title
Motivating Students for STEM: Investigating the Influence of a STEM Lab on Middle School Students’ Self-efficacy and Expectancy-value
Date of Publication
2-3-2021
Document Type
Presentation
Abstract
Indiana has made K-12 STEM education a priority. In response to Indiana's goal of providing all students K-12 with a research-based STEM curriculum by 2025, a middle school in East Central Indiana created a STEM Lab Course for their students. The curriculum for this course was developed using the design thinking framework and the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals. In this quantitative survey study, we compared the self-efficacy and expectancy-value of students pre and post-participation. We used the pre and post-survey data to further develop the course curriculum using an iterative process based on the data.
Keywords
STEM, Middle School
Persistent Identifier
http://hdl.handle.net/10950/2940
Motivating Students for STEM: Investigating the Influence of a STEM Lab on Middle School Students’ Self-efficacy and Expectancy-value
Indiana has made K-12 STEM education a priority. In response to Indiana's goal of providing all students K-12 with a research-based STEM curriculum by 2025, a middle school in East Central Indiana created a STEM Lab Course for their students. The curriculum for this course was developed using the design thinking framework and the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals. In this quantitative survey study, we compared the self-efficacy and expectancy-value of students pre and post-participation. We used the pre and post-survey data to further develop the course curriculum using an iterative process based on the data.