High school science fair: Positive and negative outcomes.

ABSTRACT: The goal of our ongoing research is to identify strengths and weaknesses of high school level science fair and improvements that can help science educators make science fair a more effective, inclusive and equitable learning experience. In this paper, we confirm and extend our previous findings in several important ways. We added new questions to our anonymous and voluntary surveys to learn the extent to which students had an interest in science or engineering careers and if science fair participation increased their interest in science or engineering. And we surveyed a national rather than regional high school student group by incorporating our survey into the Scienteer online portal now used by Texas and some other states for science fair registration, parental consent, and project manag

SUBMITTER: Grinnell F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7018130 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature