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A Philosopher Looks at STEM Quality in Higher Education
from a Liberal Arts and Sciences Perspective
A look at what classical philosophers such as Plato and Aristotle though about areas of study such as math and science and its impact on the STEM Agenda..
- Filetype: pdf
- Publish date: 2012-06
- Keywords:STEM, Conference Proceedings, Critical Thinking, Teaching Quality

Diversity Awareness Education in an Introductory Seminar Course to Promote Social Responsibility
The results from this UW-Stout study demonstrate that one strategy for effectively engaging students in diversity awareness and social responsibility programming earlier in their college careers is through a freshmen seminar course...
- Filetype: pdf
- Publish date: 2012-06
- Keywords:STEM, Conference Proceedings, Survey results

An ABC Sampler of Best Practices
NSF STEM Scholar Program at UW-Platteville
This paper focuses on the implementation of an NSF S-STEM grant received by UW-Platteville in 2010 and discusses best practices for STEM student retention..
- Filetype: pdf
- Publish date: 2012-06
- Keywords:STEM, Conference Proceedings, Student Retention

A Comparison of Epistemological Beliefs of African American Engineering Students
This study focuses on a comparison of epistemological beliefs of African American engineering students at a historically black university to those of African American engineering students at two predominantly white institutions...
- Filetype: pdf
- Publish date: 2012-06
- Keywords:STEM, Assessment/Surveys, Episemological Beliefs, Higher Education Brief, Conference Proceedings

Leveraging Simple Problems to Introduce Engineering Principles and Ways of Thinking
This paper will present how a simple problem, like designing a better paperclip, can be used to engage middle school students in engineering design activities...
- Filetype: pdf
- Publish date: 2012-06
- Keywords:STEM, Conference Proceedings, K-12 Outreach, Engineering

Seeing the Forest for the Trees -- An Industry
Partnerships between universities and professional organizations can address the demand for well-educated professionals...
- Filetype: pdf
- Publish date: 2012-06
- Keywords:STEM, Conference Proceedings, Career Development, Partnering

Identification of Strategies that Overcome Barriers to Women and Minorities in STEM
This study describes ways to diversify the STEM workforce through identification of pedagogical strategies for recruitment and retention of women and minorities into STEM classrooms. Three strategies were identified.....
- Filetype: pdf
- Publish date: 2012-06
- Keywords:STEM, Conference Proceedings, Women and Girls in STEM

Using Cognitive Acceleration Materials to Develop Pre-Service Teachers’ Reasoning and Pedagogical Expertise
In this paper, we describe two approaches we took at Winona State University to develop the reasoning ability of pre-service teachers...
- Filetype: pdf
- Publish date: 2012-06
- Keywords:STEM, Conference Proceedings, K-12 Outreach, Teaching Quality

Improving Mathematics Success Through Enhanced Support Services
This paper describes a University of Wisconsin-Stout year-long project to assess math tutors and improve math support services..
- Filetype: pdf
- Publish date: 2012-06
- Keywords:STEM, Conference Proceedings, Math, Student Support

Student Technology Access in an Urban STEM High School: The Missing Variable
This paper focuses on student technology access in a large, urban STEM high school. In particular, we will explore an innovative student technology survey and school administrator interview.....
- Filetype: pdf
- Publish date: 2012-06
- Keywords:STEM, Conference Proceedings