Nearly one-third of high school students who experience math and science classrooms where instruction is led by teachers, learning is directed by students and technology is used to support both, express a strong interest in a STEM career, according to the latest findings from the 2011 Speak Up survey. Nationally, just nine percent of students described their most recent math or science class this way.
Only 20 percent of students in traditional classrooms, where the instruction is teacher directed and the use of technology is limited, expressed the same interest in STEM careers.
These findings can be found in a Speak Up 2011 report, Mapping a Personalized Learning Journey – K-12 Students and Parents Connects the Dots with Digital Learning. To read the report and more, visit http://www.tomorrow.org/speakup/speakup_reports.html.
