Enhancing senior high school student engagement and academic performance using an inclusive and scalable inquiry-based program.

ABSTRACT: The multi-disciplinary nature of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) careers often renders difficulty for high school students navigating from classroom knowledge to post-secondary pursuits. Discrepancies between the knowledge-based high school learning approach and the experiential approach of future studies leaves some students disillusioned by STEM. We present Discovery, a term-long inquiry-focused learning model delivered by STEM graduate students in collaboration with high school teachers, in the context of biomedical engineering. Entire classes of high school STEM students representing diverse cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds engaged in iterative, problem-based learning designed to emphasize critical thinking concomitantly within the secondary school and universit

SUBMITTER: Davenport Huyer L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7710754 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature