STEM education

Y **e, M Fang, K Shauman - Annual review of sociology, 2015 - annualreviews.org
Improving science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education, especially
for traditionally disadvantaged groups, is widely recognized as pivotal to the United States's …

The troubled success of Black women in STEM

EO McGee, L Bentley - Cognition and instruction, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
We examine the experiences of 3 high-achieving Black undergraduate and graduate
women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Our findings reveal …

Attending to STEM education in servingness at Hispanic-serving institutions: a systematic review of more than a decade of scholarship

HK Ro, S Aguilar-Smith, SY Anderson… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Springer
Background, context, and purpose of the study Enrolling over 60% of all Latinx
undergraduate students, Hispanic-serving institutions (HSIs) are poised to play a critical role …

Structural racism as the fundamental cause of the academic achievement gap

DM Merolla, O Jackson - Sociology Compass, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Over six decades since the Supreme Court ruled that all American children have the right to
a high quality education, the academic achievement gap remains an important social …

Exploring bias in math teachers' perceptions of students' ability by gender and race/ethnicity

C Riegle-Crumb, M Humphries - Gender & Society, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
This study explores whether gender stereotypes about math ability shape high school
teachers' assessments of the students with whom they interact daily, resulting in the …

Why are there so few ethnic minorities in ecology and evolutionary biology? Challenges to inclusion and the role of sense of belonging

LT O'Brien, HL Bart, DM Garcia - Social Psychology of Education, 2020 - Springer
African Americans and other ethnic minorities are severely underrepresented in both
graduate education and among the professoriate in ecology and evolutionary biology (EEB) …

Unfulfilled potential: High-achieving minority students and the high school achievement gap in math

S Kotok - High School Journal, 2017 - JSTOR
This study uses multilevel modeling to examine a subset of the highest performing 9th
graders and explores the extent that achievement gaps in math widen for high performing …

Equitable access for secondary English learner students: Course taking as evidence of EL program effectiveness

RM Callahan, D Shifrer - Educational Administration …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
Purpose: English learner (EL) education policy has long directed schools to address EL
students' linguistic and academic development without furthering inequity or segregation …

The relationships among high school STEM learning experiences and students' intent to declare and declaration of a STEM major in college

MC Bottia, E Stearns, RA Mickelson… - Teachers College …, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
Background/Context Schools are integral to augmenting and diversifying the science,
technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) workforce. This is because K–12 schools …

Factors associated with college STEM participation of racially minoritized students: A synthesis of research

MC Bottia, RA Mickelson, C Jamil… - Review of …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Racially minoritized students in the United States constitute 30% of the US population, but
students from these populations represent a smaller proportion of those who earn science …