Improving Educational Opportunities for Underrepresented Students: The Educational Impact of T-STEM Academies

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Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate students’ mathematics achievement growth rate in T-STEM academies compared to students’ mathematics achievement growth rate in traditional public high schools. Forty-six schools, 23 of which were T-STEM academies and 23 were matched non-STEM schools were included in this study. A Hierarchical Linear Modeling (HLM) method was conducted. The result of the present study revealed that there was no difference in students’ mathematics achievement growth rate in T-STEM academies compared to students’ mathematics achievement growth rate in comparison schools. However, in terms of ethnicity, the results indicated that African American and Hispanic students in T-STEM academies outperformed than African American and Hispanic students in comparison schools on their mathematics growth rate.

Authors

• Ali Bicer, University of Wyoming

• Robert M. Capraro, Texas A&M University

• Mary Margaret Capraro, Texas A&M University

• Sandra B. Nite, Texas A&M University - College Station