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Experiences of Students, Teachers, and Parents Participating in an Inclusive, School-Based Informal Engineering Education Program
Many youth on the autism spectrum possess interests and strengths for STEM-related postsecondary pathways, yet there are few research-based programs to support those interests and competencies including complex problem solving and social communication. This qualitative study explored the experiences...
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author | Chen, Yu-Lun Murthi, Kavitha Martin, Wendy Vidiksis, Regan Riccio, Ariana Patten, Kristie |
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description | Many youth on the autism spectrum possess interests and strengths for STEM-related postsecondary pathways, yet there are few research-based programs to support those interests and competencies including complex problem solving and social communication. This qualitative study explored the experiences and perceived outcomes of students, teachers, and parents participating in an inclusive, strength-based, extracurricular engineering design program entitled the IDEAS Maker Club. Twenty-six students, 13 parents, and nine teachers in the program completed interviews and program logs while researchers conducted classroom observations over 2 years. Thematic analysis identified five common themes: (1) positive student experience and engagement, (2) skills acquisition, (3) development of interest in STEM and related careers, (4) social relationships and community, and (5) safe spaces that supported self-determination. |
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spelling | pubmed-92964052022-07-21 Experiences of Students, Teachers, and Parents Participating in an Inclusive, School-Based Informal Engineering Education Program Chen, Yu-Lun Murthi, Kavitha Martin, Wendy Vidiksis, Regan Riccio, Ariana Patten, Kristie J Autism Dev Disord Original Paper Many youth on the autism spectrum possess interests and strengths for STEM-related postsecondary pathways, yet there are few research-based programs to support those interests and competencies including complex problem solving and social communication. This qualitative study explored the experiences and perceived outcomes of students, teachers, and parents participating in an inclusive, strength-based, extracurricular engineering design program entitled the IDEAS Maker Club. Twenty-six students, 13 parents, and nine teachers in the program completed interviews and program logs while researchers conducted classroom observations over 2 years. Thematic analysis identified five common themes: (1) positive student experience and engagement, (2) skills acquisition, (3) development of interest in STEM and related careers, (4) social relationships and community, and (5) safe spaces that supported self-determination. Springer US 2021-08-19 2022 /pmc/articles/PMC9296405/ /pubmed/34410541 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10803-021-05230-2 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Original Paper Chen, Yu-Lun Murthi, Kavitha Martin, Wendy Vidiksis, Regan Riccio, Ariana Patten, Kristie Experiences of Students, Teachers, and Parents Participating in an Inclusive, School-Based Informal Engineering Education Program |
title | Experiences of Students, Teachers, and Parents Participating in an Inclusive, School-Based Informal Engineering Education Program |
title_full | Experiences of Students, Teachers, and Parents Participating in an Inclusive, School-Based Informal Engineering Education Program |
title_fullStr | Experiences of Students, Teachers, and Parents Participating in an Inclusive, School-Based Informal Engineering Education Program |
title_full_unstemmed | Experiences of Students, Teachers, and Parents Participating in an Inclusive, School-Based Informal Engineering Education Program |
title_short | Experiences of Students, Teachers, and Parents Participating in an Inclusive, School-Based Informal Engineering Education Program |
title_sort | experiences of students, teachers, and parents participating in an inclusive, school-based informal engineering education program |
topic | Original Paper |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9296405/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34410541 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10803-021-05230-2 |
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