STEM Curriculum Development and Implementation

Review of the recent literature on integrated STEM curriculum development and implementation. Included are frameworks for integrated STEM curriculum development and research assessments to evaluate curriculum quality. Details and examples from a large integrated STEM research project in the United States are included. The paper concludes with a call for future research related to STEM curriculum implementation, including the need for new observation protocols.

Roehrig, G. H., Dare, E. A., Wieselmann, J. R., & Ring-Whalen, E. A. (2023). The Rise of STEM Education: STEM curriculum development and implementation. In R. Tierney, F. Rizvi, & K. Ercikan (Eds), International Encyclopedia of Education (pp. 153-163). Elsevier. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-818630-5.13056-8