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Promoting Secondary Students' Twenty-First Century Skills and STEM Career Interests Through a Crossover Program of STEM and Community Service Education
STEM education has been regarded as an important educational initiative for cultivating students' twenty-first century skills. The present work aimed to explore ways to promote students' twenty-first century skills through an integrated STEM-based curriculum. Specifically, we designed and...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9298178/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35874347 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.903252 |
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author | Huang, Biyun Jong, Morris Siu-Yung King, Ronnel B. Chai, Ching-Sing Jiang, Michael Yi-Chao |
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description | STEM education has been regarded as an important educational initiative for cultivating students' twenty-first century skills. The present work aimed to explore ways to promote students' twenty-first century skills through an integrated STEM-based curriculum. Specifically, we designed and implemented an 8-week crossover program of STEM and community service education. In this program, students learned about STEM domain knowledge and community service issues. They then applied the knowledge to solve authentic problems faced by Hong Kong community-housing residents from disadvantaged groups. A mixed-method approach was employed to evaluate the effectiveness of the program in enhancing students' twenty-first century skills and attitudes, including (i) creative thinking, (ii) collaboration, (iii) perseverance, as well as their (iv) STEM career interests. The research participants were 121 secondary students from a government-subsidized school. The quantitative results showed that the participants' creative thinking, collaboration, and perseverance improved alongside their STEM career interests. These findings were further supported by the data gathered through focus-group interviews. This study provides theoretical and practical insights into the integration of STEM education with community service learning. |
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spelling | pubmed-92981782022-07-21 Promoting Secondary Students' Twenty-First Century Skills and STEM Career Interests Through a Crossover Program of STEM and Community Service Education Huang, Biyun Jong, Morris Siu-Yung King, Ronnel B. Chai, Ching-Sing Jiang, Michael Yi-Chao Front Psychol Psychology STEM education has been regarded as an important educational initiative for cultivating students' twenty-first century skills. The present work aimed to explore ways to promote students' twenty-first century skills through an integrated STEM-based curriculum. Specifically, we designed and implemented an 8-week crossover program of STEM and community service education. In this program, students learned about STEM domain knowledge and community service issues. They then applied the knowledge to solve authentic problems faced by Hong Kong community-housing residents from disadvantaged groups. A mixed-method approach was employed to evaluate the effectiveness of the program in enhancing students' twenty-first century skills and attitudes, including (i) creative thinking, (ii) collaboration, (iii) perseverance, as well as their (iv) STEM career interests. The research participants were 121 secondary students from a government-subsidized school. The quantitative results showed that the participants' creative thinking, collaboration, and perseverance improved alongside their STEM career interests. These findings were further supported by the data gathered through focus-group interviews. This study provides theoretical and practical insights into the integration of STEM education with community service learning. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-07-06 /pmc/articles/PMC9298178/ /pubmed/35874347 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.903252 Text en Copyright © 2022 Huang, Jong, King, Chai and Jiang. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Psychology Huang, Biyun Jong, Morris Siu-Yung King, Ronnel B. Chai, Ching-Sing Jiang, Michael Yi-Chao Promoting Secondary Students' Twenty-First Century Skills and STEM Career Interests Through a Crossover Program of STEM and Community Service Education |
title | Promoting Secondary Students' Twenty-First Century Skills and STEM Career Interests Through a Crossover Program of STEM and Community Service Education |
title_full | Promoting Secondary Students' Twenty-First Century Skills and STEM Career Interests Through a Crossover Program of STEM and Community Service Education |
title_fullStr | Promoting Secondary Students' Twenty-First Century Skills and STEM Career Interests Through a Crossover Program of STEM and Community Service Education |
title_full_unstemmed | Promoting Secondary Students' Twenty-First Century Skills and STEM Career Interests Through a Crossover Program of STEM and Community Service Education |
title_short | Promoting Secondary Students' Twenty-First Century Skills and STEM Career Interests Through a Crossover Program of STEM and Community Service Education |
title_sort | promoting secondary students' twenty-first century skills and stem career interests through a crossover program of stem and community service education |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9298178/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35874347 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.903252 |
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