Validation of the S-STEM survey: Conditions under a middle school robotics initiative

• In Event: RTD - STEM Education

Short Description

With the increasing emphasis on STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) education, we are in need of effective and efficient measurement systems to assess STEM based programming. In this presentation, we present the results of a data collection effort using the S-STEM survey (Unfried, Faber, Stanhope, & Wiebe, 2015) on middle school students involved in a semester-long robotics program. We conduct multiple analyses on the S-STEM survey and report both validity and reliability evidence.

Authors

• Albert Dieter Ritzhaupt, University of Florida

• Anne Corinne Manley, University of Florida

• Wenjing Luo, University of Florida

• Hsin-Ro Wei, University of Florida