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Impacts of an Informal Teen Stem CAFE Program on the STEM Experiences and Perceptions of Teen Participants.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Impacts of an Informal Teen Stem CAFE Program on the STEM Experiences and Perceptions of Teen Participants./
Author:	Dion, Katherine M.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2021,
Description:	100 p.
Notes:	Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 82-12.
Contained By:	Masters Abstracts International82-12.
Subject:	Educational evaluation. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=28413819
ISBN:	9798516084737

Impacts of an Informal Teen Stem CAFE Program on the STEM Experiences and Perceptions of Teen Participants.
Dion, Katherine M.

Impacts of an Informal Teen Stem CAFE Program on the STEM Experiences and Perceptions of Teen Participants. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2021 - 100 p.

Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 82-12.

Thesis (M.Sc.)--Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi, 2021.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

One of the most underutilized resources that has great potential to boost the STEM experiences of students are informal science centers (Anderson, Druger, James, Katz, & Ernisse, 2001; Dierking& Falk, 1994). To improve the STEM experiences of teens, the Texas State Aquarium has become a host for a local chapter of the Teen Science Cafe Network. It is hoped that this Teen Science Cafe program will positively impact its participants, as it has been proposed that by "acting like a scientist," people are able to not only better learn STEM material, but also the true Nature of Science (Summers & Abd-El-Khalick, 2019).To evaluate if the Teen Cafe program is positively impacting participants, a pilot case study was conducted on three teen participants. The teens were interviewed at the beginning and end of the school year and surveyed before and after each monthly event (September 2018 - April 2019). The interviews were audio recorded and transcribed. The transcriptions and open-ended survey questions were coded via open coding methodology. The four Likert-scaled questions on the surveys were analyzed with a paired t-test.Interviews revealed in all three cases, overall perceptions of STEM fields, STEM professionals, and the Cafe program trended positively. In two out of three cases, participants were inspired to consider pursuing specific STEM careers. A paired t-test (α ≤ 0.05) of the pre/post survey questions revealed significant changes in participant responses over time for questions regarding content knowledge and general excitement towards STEM topics, and positively trending results for questions regarding STEM careers and communicating STEM information with others. However, while there were many positive impacts made on participants, they still displayed very stereotypical silo views of STEM fields.

ISBN: 9798516084737Subjects--Topical Terms:

526425
Educational evaluation.
Subjects--Index Terms:

Informal science

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