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A State-By-State Policy Analysis Of Stem Education For K-12 Public Schools, Courtney C. Carmichael
A State-By-State Policy Analysis Of Stem Education For K-12 Public Schools, Courtney C. Carmichael
Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)
For practitioners and policy makers across the nation, STEM education has a vague definition. This study looks at how all 50 states define STEM education in policy, using four models: (a) Disciplinary STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics); (b) Integrated STEM focusing on combining two or more disciplines to produce critical thinking, real world application, and creative problem solving; (c) the Disciplinary and Integrated STEM model that acknowledges both to summarize programs at the state policy level; (d) the model with no definition of STEM education. The final results include 10 percent of states use the first model, 42 percent use …