Toward Integrated STEM Education: Developing A Research Agenda

With the National Academy of Engineering and the Board on Science Education, an ad hoc committee will conduct a consensus study whose goal is to develop a strategic research agenda for determining the approaches and conditions most likely to lead to positive outcomes of integrated science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (iSTEM) education at the K-12 level.  Specifically, the committee will identify and characterize existing approaches to iSTEM education, in formal, afterschool, and informal settings, review the evidence for their impact on various parameters of interest, including increasing student awareness, interest, motivation, and achievement in STEM subjects; improving college-readiness skills; and boosting the number and quality of students who may consider a career in a STEM-related field, determine a set of priority research questions to advance understanding of the impacts of iSTEM education, propose methodological approaches for addressing these questions, and identify potential parties who could carry out the research. Funded by: S.D. Bechtel Jr. Foundation, National Science Foundation, PTC Inc., and Samueli Foundation

MEETINGS	LOCATION	RESOURCES
Committee Meeting 1 September 27 – 28, 2011	Washington, DC	Agenda
Committee Meeting 2 and workshop January 10-12, 2012	Keck Room 204 Washington, DC	Agenda

COMMITTEE
Committee Membership
STAFF
Greg Pearson, Study Director, NAE Heidi Schweingruber, Deputy Director, BOSE Maribeth Keitz, Senior OPUS Associate, NAE