Affiliation:
1. SUSAN E. RIECHERT is Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996
2. BRIAN K. POST is a graduate student in the School of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30318
Abstract
The national Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) Education Initiative favors a curriculum shift from the compartmentalization of math and science classes into discrete subject areas to an integrated, multidisciplinary experience. Many states are currently implementing programs in high schools that provide greater integration of math, sciences, and technology. Program evaluation results indicate that students participating in multidisciplinary team projects of this type exhibit significantly higher levels of motivation and develop greater cognitive skills than students in the traditional, compartmentalized curriculum (Ross & Hogaboam-Gray, 1988; Venville et al., 2000).
Publisher
University of California Press
Subject
General Agricultural and Biological Sciences,Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous),Education
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