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Instruments for Assessing Interest in STEM Content and Careers
Tandra Tyler-Wood; Gerald Knezek; Rhonda Christensen
Journal of Technology and Teacher Education Vol. 18, No. 2 (April 2010) pp. 345–368
Two new instruments created to assess perceptions of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) disciplines and careers are analyzed and found to have respectable to excellent internal consistency reliability, as well as good content,...
Topics: Information Communication Technologies, Engineering, Science, Attitudes, Teachers, Computers, Assessment, Mathematics, Evaluation, Middle School Education, Research Methods, Students
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Gender Differences in High School Student Dispositions Toward Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Careers
Rhonda Christensen; Gerald Knezek; Tandra Tyler-Wood
Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching Vol. 34, No. 4 (October 2015) pp. 395–408
STEM disposition surveys were completed by 364 11th and 12th grade students attending a two-year university-based residential science and mathematics academy during fall 2012. Surveys were completed by the same classes as a post test administration...
Topics: Mathematics, Engineering, Administration, Middle School Education, Post Secondary Education
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Teacher Dispositions Toward Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM)
Gerald Knezek; Rhonda Christensen; Tandra Tyler-Wood
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2015 (Mar 02, 2015) pp. 1539–1545
Dispositions of middle school teachers in an NSF-funded Innovative Technologies project as well as teachers in two other STEM enrichment programs are compared with those of preservice educators from a midwestern university in the USA. Comparisons...
Topics: Preservice Teacher Education, Science Education, Engineering, Middle School Education, Workforce Education
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A Robot's View of Reality: Children Learning From and Through the Topological Panorama Camera
Rhonda Christensen; Dana Arrowood; Gerald Knezek; Janet Gelphman; Theresa Overall
International Conference on Mathematics / Science Education and Technology 1999 (1999) p. 425
The Topological Panorama Camera (Topocam) is a new educational technology based upon the 150-year old panorama camera. This digital imaging camera moves along a modular track as it scans a scene through a vertical slit or line. The camera's images ...
Topics: Middle School Education, Elementary Education, Educational Technology, Science
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Evaluation of the Girls Research Opportunities in Computing (Girls R.O.C.)
Cesar Morales; Charlotte Owens; Dale Mcgoun; Rhonda Christensen; Gerald Knezek
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2001 (2001) pp. 1282–1283
The Department of Computer Science at the University of Louisiana conducted the NSF/Girls R.O.C. program that was a three-week summer residential project during the month of July 2000. Twenty-four middle school girls were recruited within a 90...
Topics: Middle School Education, Computer Sciences, Science, Computers