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This webinar, from the Micro Nano Technology Education Center (MNT-EC), features Professor Kendrick Davis discussing key data points on STEM education and barriers to STEM success. Davis specifically focuses on underrepresented subgroups of people in STEM, including Black, Latinx, Native American,...
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Collection Description The STEM Career Awareness Curriculum, developed by DeafTEC at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), provides 6th through 12th grade educators with an accessibility-minded curriculum for STEM topics to help deaf and hard of hearing students explore STEM careers and the...
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This paper, provided by the Florida Advanced Technological Education Center for Manufacturing (FLATE), discusses the disparities present between high school graduates and the academic expectations of students entering community colleges. Specifically, the paper outlines FLATE's work to help...
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This web site provides a free course-evaluation tool for college instructors. This tool is intended to "gather learning-focused feedback from students." After registering users may 1. create a SALG survey to measure students' learning gains and progress towards course learning goals and 2. create a...
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This paper, by Richard A. Broser and Michael K. Daugherty, professors in Industrial Technology at Illinois State University, and James D. Palmer, Technology Education Teacher at Granby High School in Norfolk, Virginia, discusses technological literacy and attitudes towards technology in middle...
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This 11-page summary, from Edmonds Community College, provides information about pedagogies suited to types of learning. This resource is part of the Professional Development Formative Assessment System (PD-FAS). PD-FAS was created by the Formative Assessment for Advanced Technician Education 2...
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This 152-page dissertation, written by Rita Manco Powell, is about a study that examines fourteen women in their first year of the computer science major. The study looks at the pre-college influences that led these women to the major and the nature of their experiences with faculty, peers, and...
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This paper from Tain-Fung Wu of the National Changhua University, and Rodney L. Custer and Michael J. Dyrenfurth of the University of Missouri, covers problem solving in technology education. More specifically, the authors present a study that looks at similarities and differences in technological...
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"The Technology Gateway is an integrated, problem-based course of study that models the workplace through the use of industrial-type problems and student and faculty teams. Physics/technology, mathematics, and communications are taught concurrently in the context of solving six workplace-related...
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This 28-page toolkit outlines a mentoring program at The Center for Women and Information Technology at the University of Maryland. The toolkit includes steps to a successful mentoring program, mentor and protege roles and responsibilities, and a draft of a mentoring agreement. 
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