Smith Feon M, McKendall Sherron B, Chester Ann, Hornbeck Bethany, McKendall Alan R
Marshall University, Huntington, WV.
West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV.
J STEM Outreach. 2018;1(1). doi: 10.15695/jstem/v1i1.19. Epub 2018 Sep 24.
To combat educational and health disparities, out-of-school-time (OST) STEM enrichment programs provide services to underserved youth to encourage them to pursue college and health careers. This article describes a study conducted to determine if the Health Sciences and Technology Academy (HSTA) program participants who receive year-round educational interventions to prepare them for STEM and health sciences majors performed better on the West Virginia Educational Standards Test (WESTEST2) than non-participants. This study provides descriptive and inferential statistics, specifically one-way ANOVAs with one-to-one matching based on grade level, gender, race, and GPA at the end of the 8th grade year for 336 students. Statistically significant differences were found favoring HSTA participants on the WESTEST2 math and reading/language scores.
为了应对教育和健康方面的差距，校外时间（OST）的STEM拓展项目为服务不足的青少年提供服务，鼓励他们追求大学学业和从事健康领域的职业。本文描述了一项研究，旨在确定接受全年教育干预以准备攻读STEM和健康科学专业的健康科学与技术学院（HSTA）项目参与者在西弗吉尼亚教育标准测试（WESTEST2）中的表现是否优于非参与者。这项研究提供了描述性和推断性统计数据，具体来说，对336名学生进行了基于八年级末的年级、性别、种族和平均绩点进行一对一匹配的单因素方差分析。结果发现，在WESTEST2数学和阅读/语言成绩方面，HSTA参与者具有统计学上的显著优势。
