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SPRING 2019
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FEATURE STORY
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| RERIC Partners With Rural Wisconsin |
| Last fall, WCER launched the Rural Education Research & Implementation Center, or RERIC (rare-ik), dedicated to improving educational outcomes for rural students, families and schools through rigorous, partnership-based research. As co-Directors Craig Albers and Andy Garbacz state, “Rural Wisconsin, we are listening!” |
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RECENT PUBLICATIONS & FINDINGS
LABOR MARKET
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STEM
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| “Women, Community Colleges and STEM Careers” |
Researchers Xueli Wang and Kelly Wickersham co-authored this book chapter published in New Directions for Institutional Research. It documents research on the two-year college STEM pathway among women. Presenting national data, along with original survey and interview data from another STEM study, Wang and Wickersham tease out the disparities and complexities of the experiences and paths in STEM of women in community colleges.
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| “New Survey Instrument Measures Factors in Upward Transfer in STEM Fields” |
This study by Xueli Wang and Seo Young Lee examines the psychometric properties of a new survey measuring factors of STEM student transfers from two- to four-year colleges, such as: initial attitudes toward math and science, self-efficacy in math and science, active learning and transfer-oriented interaction. Published in The Review of Higher Education.
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INTERNSHIPS
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MENTORING
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Watch & LEARN
Rita MacDonald, an associate researcher at WIDA, introduces a new way to get English learners excited about STEM courses. Watch the Transforming STEM Education video.
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