Examining the Impact of a 2-Day Scientific Conference on High School Students’ Interest in STEM and Confidence in Attending University

Gallant, Caitlyn; Bork, Poling; Carpenter-Cleland, Christene; Good, Dawn

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“…Overall, the results of the systematic literature review suggest that there is a need for studies on healthcare education outreach programs to integrate empirical data with practitioner expertise to understand the unique barriers of historically marginalized students pursuing healthcare professions. Moving away from the pipeline metaphor and towards sustainable progress, studies on healthcare education outreach programs should 1) understand the main barriers to historically marginalized students entering, persisting, and succeeding in healthcare professions; 2) the protective factors that are correlated with increased entry, success, and persistence into healthcare professions; and finally, 3) the components that can successfully mitigate barriers or facilitate protective factors [18][19][20][21][22]. Table 2 Illustrates the percentage of studies that satisfied each category of the examination criteria.…”

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“…Therefore, the pipeline metaphor for creating a more diverse STEM workforce should be critically elaborated by considering how institutional, societal, and cultural factors shape the trajectories of historically marginalized students [14,[17][18][19][20]. Moving away from the pipeline metaphor that focuses mostly on recruitment [14], research has suggested providing resources, networks, and opportunities early on through healthcare education outreach programs for the intrinsic and societal benefits of historically marginalized students [21][22][23]. Healthcare education outreach programs have been shown to facilitate the educational pathways of historically marginalized students to pursue STEM majors, leading to long-term careers in healthcare professions [23].…”

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A systematic review of the 60 year literature: Effects of outreach programs in supporting historically marginalized and first-generation, low-income students in healthcare education

2022

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We have reviewed over 60 years of studies on healthcare education outreach programs that are aimed to support first-generation, low-income, as well as underrepresented racial and ethnic minority groups (historically marginalized students) to pursue pre-health professions. As a systematic literature review, we present the challenges studies on healthcare education outreach programs had as three main categories: 1) Design, 2) Evaluation, and 3) Analysis. 1) Designs of studies on healthcare education outreach programs often lacked theoretical foundations whereby a) the interventions did not present theories underlying a causal mechanism of inequity in health professions; and/or 1b) the defined outcome measures were not clearly aligned with the problem the intervention tried to address. 2) Evaluations of studies on healthcare education outreach programs were not always conducted effectively whereby: 2a) controlled groups were commonly absent for comparison with the intervention group; and/or 2b) post measures were solely used without pre-measures. 3) Analyses of studies on healthcare education outreach programs were not adequate whereby: 3a) the response rates and effect size were commonly low; and/or 3b) qualitative results commonly did not supplement quantitative results. Overall, our findings reveal studies on healthcare education outreach programs have common challenges that hinder the reliability of their effects supporting historically marginalized students in pursuing pre-health professions. To address such challenges with studies on healthcare education outreach programs aimed at supporting historically marginalized students, we created a decision flow chart for researchers to ask themselves: 1) how is the design guided by theoretical goals; 2) how are measurements used to evaluate success; and 3) how does the analysis lead to reliable results?

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A systematic review of the 60 year literature: Effects of outreach programs in supporting historically marginalized and first-generation, low-income students in healthcare education

2022

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“…There have been positive results in upper secondary school students' confidence in attending university even after a short exposure and collaboration with universities. Outreach programs have been beneficial in promoting interest in academic careers [22].…”

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Supporting the Transition to Higher Education: Finnish Principals’ Views on Opportunities and Challenges of Institutional Cooperation

2023

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The transition from upper secondary school to higher education is a major change in students’ lives. Supporting students to make informed decisions based on a realistic view of higher education is one of the key elements to ensuring their motivation in future studies. Cooperation between upper secondary and higher education is one model for providing students with realistic views. However, little research has been produced from this cooperation. Therefore, the aim of this paper, based on mixed-method research, is to produce new insights into the opportunities provided by institutional cooperation by analyzing the views of Finnish upper secondary school principals (N = 94). The data were gathered using an online survey and analyzed via qualitative content analysis and descriptive statistics. The results indicate that principals consider cooperation with higher education institutions to be beneficial but there are some challenges in its implementation, such as the different structures of upper secondary schools and universities and inadequate information about possible opportunities. There are also great differences in upper secondary schools’ levels of participation. Distance to the nearest higher education institution and the size of the upper secondary school affected the participation models. There is a need to support cooperation between institutions to ensure equal possibilities for students, such as common structures, better information, as well as a multitude of different opportunities.

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“…The learning outcomes of integrative STEM are frequently studied areas (Bedar & Al-Shboul, 2020;Duran, Höft, Lawson, Medjahed, & Orady, 2014;Friedman, Melendez, Bush, Lai, & McLaughlin, 2017;Gallant, Bork, Carpenter-Cleland, & Good, 2020;Han, 2017;Julià & Antolí, 2019;Lamptey vd., 2021;Master, Cheryan, Moscatelli, & Meltzoff, 2017;Mohr-Schroeder vd., 2014;Zhou, Zeng, Xu, Chen, & Xiao, 2019). In addition, the effectiveness of integrated STEM education in generating basic topic knowledge has been relatively understudied, according to some scholars (Barrett, Moran, & Woods, 2014;Honey, Pearson, & Schweingruber, 2014).…”

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A meta-analysis of the effects of different integrated STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) approaches on primary students' attitudes

Ulum

2022

International Journal of Educational Research Review

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The purpose of this meta-analysis is to combine the results of experimental research completed between 2012 and 2022 and to examine the effects of different integrated STEM approaches on the attitudes of elementary school children. In the meta-analysis for the study on the effects of several integrated STEM approaches on the attitudes of elementary school children, five studies were selected based on particular criteria. The study included subgroup analyses in addition to exposing the overall effect of various integrated STEM approaches on the attitudes of elementary school children. According to the research findings, the Hedges g value, which is calculated to be 0.279 for the total effect size of diverse integrated STEM approaches on the attitudes of elementary school pupils, shows a small influence. In addition, the results of the analysis revealed that the impacts of different integrated STEM approaches on the attitudes of primary school pupils did not differ according to grade levels, but differed according to attitude area and integration.

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Examining the Impact of a 2-Day Scientific Conference on High School Students’ Interest in STEM and Confidence in Attending University

Cited by 9 publications

References 30 publications

A systematic review of the 60 year literature: Effects of outreach programs in supporting historically marginalized and first-generation, low-income students in healthcare education

A systematic review of the 60 year literature: Effects of outreach programs in supporting historically marginalized and first-generation, low-income students in healthcare education

Supporting the Transition to Higher Education: Finnish Principals’ Views on Opportunities and Challenges of Institutional Cooperation

A meta-analysis of the effects of different integrated STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) approaches on primary students' attitudes

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