Citation
Anderson, K., Remold, J., & Parker, C. E. (2016). Promising approaches to broadening youth participation in STEM. STEM Learning and Resource Center (STELAR).
Abstract
The National Science Foundation (NSF) views broadening participation in the nation’s STEM enterprise as vitally linked to the United States’ capacity for innovation. To prioritize inclusion, the ITEST program has called for reflection on best practices and lessons learned regarding broadening participation with this question: “Given the shifting demographics reflected in our current classrooms and in our country, what are effective and productive ways to ensure broadening participation by engaging dverse underrepresented populations in STEM programs and careers?”
This paper, based on a review of over 200 publications related to approximately 110 ITEST projects, seeks to respond to that question. While all ITEST projects include “broadening participation” as a central goal, we found that publications relating to 43 projects contained specific information on broadening participation. Of those, publications relating to 25 projects had “broadening participation” as the primary focus. Here, we present the range of strategies that project teams employed by highlighting some of those 25 projects.
