Engineering

The roles of engineering notebooks in shaping elementary engineering student discourse and practice

Engineering design challenges offer important opportunities for students to learn science and engineering knowledge and practices. This study examines how students’ engineering notebooks across four units of the curriculum Engineering is Elementary (EiE) support student work during design challenges. Through educational ethnography and discourse analysis, transcripts of student talk and action were created and coded around the uses of notebooks in the accomplishment of engineering tasks.

Author/Presenter

Jonathan D. Hertel

Christine M. Cunningham

Gregory J. Kelly

Lead Organization(s)
Year
2017
Short Description

This study examines how students’ engineering notebooks across four units of the curriculum Engineering is Elementary (EiE) support student work during design challenges.

Framing Engineering Practices in Elementary School Classrooms

Cunningham, C. M., & Kelly, G. J. (2017). Framing Engineering Practices in Elementary School Classrooms. International Journal of Engineering Education, 33(1B), 295–307.

Author/Presenter

Christine M. Cunningham

Gregory J. Kelly

Lead Organization(s)
Year
2017
Short Description

This article focused on engineering practices for elementary classrooms.

Family-school partnerships in a context of urgent engagement: Rethinking models, measurement, and meaningfulness

This commentary highlights key themes across the five chapters of this volume, as well as offers specific recommendations concerning future directions for inquiry on the issue of family–school connections. A case is made that in order to advance scientific knowledge of this issue and its application, dialogue is sorely needed that is multidisciplinary, engages mixed methods and emic traditions, and attends to how context shapes family–school connections.

Author/Presenter

Christine M. McWayne

Lead Organization(s)
Year
2015
Short Description

This commentary highlights key themes across the five chapters of this volume, as well as offers specific recommendations concerning future directions for inquiry on the issue of family–school connections.

The eight essential elements of inclusive STEM high schools

Background Inclusive STEM (traditionally known to stand for “Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math”) high schools are emerging across the country as a mechanism for improving STEM education and getting more and diverse students into STEM majors and careers. However, there is no consensus on what these schools are or should be, making it difficult to both evaluate their effectiveness and scale successful models. We addressed this problem by working with inclusive STEM high school leaders and stakeholders to articulate and understand their intended school models.

Author/Presenter

Melanie LaForce

Elizabeth Noble

Heather King

Jeanne Century

Courtney Blackwell

Sandra Holt

Ahmed Ibrahim

Stephanie Loo

Lead Organization(s)
Year
2016
Short Description

This framework offers a clear picture of what exactly inclusive STEM schools are and common language for both researchers and practitioners.

Resource(s)

STEM-focused high schools as a strategy for enhancing readiness for postsecondary STEM programs

The logic underlying inclusive STEM high schools (ISHSs) posits that requiring all students to take advanced college preparatory STEM courses while providing student-centered, reform-oriented instruction, ample student supports, and real-world STEM experiences and role models will prepare and inspire students admitted on the basis of STEM interest rather than prior achievement for postsecondary STEM. This study tests that logic model by comparing the high school experiences and achievement of students in ISHSs and comparison schools in North Carolina.

Author/Presenter

Barbara Means

Haiwen Wang

Viki Young

Vanessa L. Peters

Sharon J. Lynch

Lead Organization(s)
Year
2016
Short Description

This study tests that logic model by comparing the high school experiences and achievement of students in ISHSs and comparison schools in North Carolina.