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Reflections and Measures of STEM Teaching and Learning on K-12 Creative And Performing Arts Students
2010 Annual Conference & Exposition : Technological Literacy and K-12 Engineering, 15.1023
01 Jan 2010
Abstract
Despite the fact that many students with interests in the creative and performing arts have the potential to be successful in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), they often rule out pursuing careers in STEM. We argue that one reason for this is the broader societal dichotomy between creative and technical fields: students often either like STEM courses or arts and humanities courses. The goal of our program is to capture students' perceived interests and support them in coming to see the relationship between the creative and performing arts and broader STEM concepts. This goal was accomplished through the design, development, and implementation of a variety of inquiry-based labs. These labs, which were developed primarily by undergraduate and graduate engineering students, focused on a diverse set of topics including image processing, robotics, bioinformatics, and audio processing. Project staff implemented these labs to students in an arts magnet school that is part of a large urban school district. In this paper, we discuss preliminary results from the first two years of the project. In particular, we will focus on (a) a brief description of two labs (which are some of the labs available at http://dk12.ece.drexel.edu), (b) the effectiveness of the labs by assessing i) overall K-12 student attitude change in the program and ii) graduate and undergraduate experiences and development, and (c) lessons learned thus far in the project.
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- Title
- Reflections and Measures of STEM Teaching and Learning on K-12 Creative And Performing Arts Students
- Creators
- Steven Essinger - Drexel UniversityRyan Coote - Drexel UniversityPete KonstantopoulosJason Silverman - Drexel UniversityGail Rosen - Drexel University
- Publication Details
- 2010 Annual Conference & Exposition : Technological Literacy and K-12 Engineering, 15.1023
- Conference
- 2010 Annual Conference & Exposition (Louisville, Kentucky, United States, 20 Jun 2010–23 Jun 2010)
- Publisher
- ASEE
- Number of pages
- 19
- Resource Type
- Conference paper
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Electrical and Computer Engineering; School of Education
- Other Identifier
- 991019173529104721