Community colleges are significant in the landscape of undergraduate STEM (science technology, engineering, and mathematics) education (9), including biology, premedical, and other preprofessional education. Thirty percent of first-year medical school students in 2012 attended a community college. Students attend at different times in high school, their first 2 yr of college, and postbaccalaure...

The content analysis is used to analyze the total 273 articles about children's science education research from 2000-2012 in CNKI (China National Knowledge Infrastructure). Analysis dimensions include quantity, content, author and research methods. Analysis results show that the number of children's science education literature has a trend of rising year by year. The study of children's science...

Hardware courses have always been a part of the undergraduate Computer Science (CS) curriculum at small colleges. However, these courses are often viewed by many faculty members either as a necessity to satisfy accreditation requirements or, at best, as a traditional but useless part of the CS program in liberal arts settings. The material in these courses is often considered selfcontained, and...

This study assessed how science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education is integrated in Science Teacher Education curriculum Zimbabwe. An exploratory mixed methods research design, within the post-positivist paradigm, was used to guide collection analysis of data. Data were sourced from 18 teacher educators 108 final year student teachers pooled two secondary school Teachers’...

Current information systems (IS) literature has paid considerable attention to measuring the computer attitudes of students and schoolteachers. Computer attitudes of non-computing academics working particularly in technical colleges have, however, received scant attention. Moreover, studies on computer attitudes among Asian academics are least reported. Keeping this in view, this study was unde...

In this paper, we present an equilibrium model of the market for higher education. Our model simultaneously predicts student selection into institutions of higher education, financial aid, educational expenditures, and educational outcomes. We show that the model gives rise to a strict hierarchy of colleges that differ by the educational quality provided to the students. We develop an algorithm...

In the last issue of The Scienfi.st, Morris H. Shames, emeritus professor of physics at New York University, cast a cold eye on the concept of scientific literacy. He argued that a more reasonable goal in educating nonscientists about science might be science appreciation. Like music and art appreciation, science appreciation might be fostered without requiring the mastery of technical details ...