STEM Educator Pipeline: Doing the Math on Recruiting Math and Science Teachers. Issue Brief

Institution	ACT, Inc.
Titel	STEM Educator Pipeline: Doing the Math on Recruiting Math and Science Teachers. Issue Brief
Quelle	(2013), (8 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	STEM Education; Teacher Recruitment; Science Teachers; Mathematics Teachers; Teacher Competencies; Educational Quality; Career Choice; College Graduates; College Students; Student Interests; College Readiness; Majors (Students); Competence; Science Achievement; Mathematics Achievement; Teaching (Occupation); College Entrance Examinations; ACT Assessment + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? STEM; Lehrerrekrutierung; Science; Teacher; Teachers; Science teacher; Wissenschaft; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Mathematics; Mathematik; Lehrkunst; Quality of education; Bildungsqualität; Hochschulabsolvent; Hochschulabsolventin; Collegestudent; Studieninteresse; Kompetenz; Mathmatics sikills; Mathmatics achievement; Mathematical ability; Mathematische Kompetenz; Teaching; Lehrberuf; Aufnahmeprüfung; Assessment; Eignungsprüfung; Eignungstest; Hochschulzulassung
Abstract	The proposed federal STEM Teacher Pathway program seeks to produce 100,000 new, high-quality math and science teachers in the next decade. How difficult will the goal be to achieve? This report uses data from the ACT® college readiness assessment to examine the feasibility of producing 100,000 high-quality math and science teachers in the next decade and finds that there is an insufficient number of graduates interested in and capable of math and science teaching to meet the 100,000 high-quality teacher goal. Of the 1.3 million 2012 ACT-tested graduates who tested during either their junior or senior year and were either "fairly sure" or "very sure" of their potential career occupation, only 0.25% identified that they wanted to be math teachers and 0.06% wanted to be science teachers. Due to the shortage of interested and capable graduates, the report highlights two possible groups to target for recruitment--STEM-capable students interested in education and STEM-capable students undecided of their college major--and highlights the potential recruitment strategies and challenges. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01