Opening the Doors to STEM Employment Opportunities for Rural Youth

2019 ◽  
pp. 120-162
Keyword(s):  
High School Students ◽  
College Major ◽  
Career Exploration ◽  
Rural Students ◽  
School Students ◽  
Employment Opportunities ◽  
Knowledge And Skills ◽  
Vocational Maturity ◽  
Stem Career ◽  
Recruitment Tool

Guiding rural students on the path towards a STEM career requires a tripartite approach that addresses career decidedness, career thoughts, and vocational maturity. The authors provide an overview of a guided career exploration model employed by Project Engage. Through guided career exploration, rural students are introduced to the multitude of career possibilities in STEM as well as the knowledge and skills needed for those careers. Additionally, this chapter reviews the outreach component of Project Engage. Outreach to students from local high schools serves both as a recruitment tool and as a means to motivate rural students to pursue STEM as a college major. Finally, the authors present data from surveys regarding the effectiveness of the outreach activities on engaging high school students in STEM.

scholarly journals Exploring Rural Engineering Students’ College-Choice Process at Two Land-Grant Universities

2021 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 28-44
Author(s):  
Rachel Worsham ◽  
Ashley Clayton ◽  
Joy Gaston Gayles
Keyword(s):  
High School Students ◽  
College Choice ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
College Major ◽  
Rural Students ◽  
Engineering Majors ◽  
School Students ◽  
College Choice Process ◽  
Land Grant Universities

This qualitative case study examines the college choice decisions of rural students enrolled in engineering majors to understand what conditions and experiences led rural students to pursue engineering at their institution. We found four themes that help illuminate rural engineering students’ college choice journeys (1) The Inextricable Nature of College, Major, and Career Choice (2) “The Smart Person Thing to Do:” The Power of Prestige, (3) “Are You Sure You Don’t Want to Change your Major?” Dissonance Between Aspirations and Expectations, and (4) School and Community as Crucial Resources in College and Major Exploration. These findings have implications for those working with rural high school students seeking engineering degrees and admissions processes at four-year colleges and universities.

THE DEVELOPMENT OF ALGORITHMIC CULTURE AND PROGRAMMING CULTURE OF STUDENTS IN PROFILE CLASSES WHILE STUDING THE BASIS OF PROGRAMMING IN C++

2020 ◽  
pp. 24-33
Author(s):  
K. V. Rozov
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Writing Programs ◽  
School Students ◽  
Knowledge And Skills ◽  
C Programming ◽  
And Mathematics ◽  
Basic Level ◽  
Special Control

The article presents the structure, content and results of approbation of the C++ programming course developed for the 10th grade students of physics and mathematics profile and implemented as part of the academic subject “Informatics”. The aim of the course is to develop in the student not only knowledge and skills in programming, but also his algorithmic culture and programming culture as important qualities of a potential IT-specialist. This is facilitated by special control of educational process by the teacher, which consists in monitoring the activities of students in writing programs and timely correction of this activity. The assessment of the level of development of student algorithmic culture and programming culture relative to the basic level of their formation (when mastering the basics of algorithmization and programming in the 9th grade) was carried out on the basis of a number of criteria presented in the article. The results of approbation showed that the specially organized teacher activity makes it possible to increase the level of algorithmic culture and programming culture of high school students when studying the basics of programming in C++.

scholarly journals Internalization of Pancasila Values and Nationalism in High Schools Through Citizenship Education

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 1899-1908
Author(s):  
Arifin Arifin
Keyword(s):  
High School Students ◽  
High Schools ◽  
Citizenship Education ◽  
Future Generation ◽  
Scientific Concepts ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
School Students ◽  
Knowledge And Skills ◽  
Democratic Attitudes ◽  
Study Results

As citizens and the future generation, high school students are required to understand and carry out their rights and obligations according to their age level. Citizenship Education as a subject in schools must emphasize building their character. The substance of learning begins to make citizens who can participate effectively, intelligently, democratically, and responsibly. This literature study scrutinized this education pattern by analyzing six articles published in different settings in Indonesian high schools. The study results explain that Citizenship Education is directed to achieve two balanced main goals. First, Citizenship Education is functioned to improve students’ knowledge and skills about ethics, morals, and principles in the life of the nation and state, then to shape attitudes, behaviour, and personality by the noble values of the Indonesian nation. These two goals should be achieved so that students understand scientific concepts and principles and can do something using scientific concepts and principles that they have mastered in everyday life. Citizenship education should equip students with adequate intellectual knowledge and skills, which allow them to participate intelligently and responsibly in various dimensions of life to form democratic attitudes.

scholarly journals A Qualitative Exploration of STEM Career Development of High School Students in Taiwan

2019 ◽  
pp. 089484531983052 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiaqi Li ◽  
Wei-Cheng Joseph Mau ◽  
Shr-Jya Chen ◽  
Tzu-Chi Lin ◽  
Ting-Yu Lin
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Career Development ◽  
School Students ◽  
Stem Career Development ◽  
Stem Career ◽  
Qualitative Exploration

scholarly journals STEM Career Preferences of the Anatolian High School Students from Different Socioeconomic Levels

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 58
Author(s):  
Esra Kızılay ◽  
Havva Yamak ◽  
Nusret Kavak
Keyword(s):  
High School Students ◽  
High Schools ◽  
School Students ◽  
Chi Square ◽  
Stem Career ◽  
And Mathematics ◽  
Chi Square Analysis ◽  
Data Frequency ◽  
Career Preferences ◽  
Socioeconomic Levels

The purpose of this study is to reveal the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) career preferences in university of the students at different socioeconomic levels studying in Anatolian high schools and the relation between their socioeconomic levels and preferences. The research is performed with 886 students studying in Anatolian high schools in Kayseri province in the second term of the 2016-2017 academic year. The data is gathered via a form with demographic information and university career preferences of the students. The socioeconomic levels of the students are determined and their university career preferences are coded as STEM career field or non-STEM career field. In the analysis of the data, the SPSS 22 program is utilized. In the analysis of the data, frequency, percentage, and chi-square analysis are used. In the research, a significant relation is found between the socioeconomic levels of the students and whether their university career preferences are within the STEM field or not.

Effect of Personal Characteristics on Chinese High School Students' Internet Self-Efficacy

2013 ◽  
Vol 41 (10) ◽  
pp. 1717-1724 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yan Li ◽  
Qianziang Zhao
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Personal Characteristics ◽  
Rural Students ◽  
Male Students ◽  
School Students ◽  
Level Of Education ◽  
Chinese High School Students ◽  
High Level

We explored the relationship between personal characteristics and Internet self-efficacy (ISE) in Chinese high school students. Hsu and Chiu's (2004) ISE scale was completed by 496 randomly selected students from 7 high schools. Results indicated that their ISE was moderately high and that urban students had higher ISE than did rural students, male students had higher ISE than did female students, students who had a computer at home had higher ISE than did students who did not, and students whose parents had a high level of education had higher ISE than did students whose parents had a low level of education.

scholarly journals LEARNING ENVIRONMENT AND INTEREST IN STEM CAREER

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (6) ◽  
pp. 28-49
Author(s):  
Nursyahirah Ahmad ◽  
Denis Lajium
Keyword(s):  
High School Students ◽  
Learning Environment ◽  
Classroom Environment ◽  
Computational Thinking ◽  
Student Interest ◽  
Science Literature ◽  
Stem Learning ◽  
School Students ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
Stem Career

The participation of high school students who have never achieved a 60:40 science-literature ratio until now. Malaysia just like any other country has taken steps to move in line with technological advances and computational thinking, so there are various programs based on STEM that have been made. However, like most educational programs that aim in students’ interest, the effectiveness of such programs still not clear in this STEM movement that it is more 'out of the classroom'. Although the learning environment is one of the indicators of the quality of education, the learning environment in the STEM field is less emphasized in the studies on STEM education especially in Malaysia. With this, a learning environment was developed that is STEM Based CLES and CIQ. This learning environment instrument is needed to help researchers assess the extent to which a particular classroom environment aligns with constructivism and STEM epistemologies, helping teachers to reflect on their epistemological barriers and refine student learning sessions. Accordingly, the STEM Based CLES and CIQ survey was used to identify the relationship between students’ perceptions of the learning environment and students' interest in STEM careers. The result shows that the students’ perceptions of the learning environment (sig=0.384) and student interest in a STEM career (sig=0.764) are not significantly different by gender, while the students’ perceptions of the learning environment (sig=0.193) and student interest in a STEM career (sig=0.000) are significantly different by school’s location. The correlational analysis shows the scales of the CLES learning environment have significantly weak relations towards student interest in a STEM career (r=0.316), while, the scales of STEM learning environment has a moderate significant relation towards the student interest in a STEM career (r=0.628). However, this study’s result shows that there is no correlation between the learning environment and students’ academic performances (r=-0.130).

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