Abstract
This Pilot and Feasibility project involved CAST, a non-profit education research organization, the University of New Hampshire (UNH), and outdoor-recreation and informal STEM community-based youth-serving organizations in New Hampshire (NH). The research investigated the contributions of youth's participation in outdoor recreation in developing high school aged students' STEM identities and considerations of careers in STEM. The study addressed three questions: How can outdoor recreation be used as an informal STEM learning context to broaden participation for underrepresented rural youth who face known barriers to the traditional learning experiences necessary for developing positive STEM identities? How can outdoor recreation be used to increase the STEM career pathways for underrepresented rural youth? How do people in different positions in the STEM ecosystem view STEM as part of the future OR economy? This coding guidebook was used to score and provide feedback on youths’ responses to prompts they received on a mobile application ORfolio, that was used as an engagement and data collection tool in the project.
Department
Recreation Management and Policy; New Hampshire Youth Retention Initiative
Publication Date
2024
Grant/Award Number and Agency
National Science Foundation DRL #2213919 (Advancing Informal Science Learning)
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
Document Type
Article
Recommended Citation
Bastoni, Amanda; Johnston, Sam Catherine; Coppens, Andrew D.; Seaman, Jayson; and Hartman, Cindy, "STEM Pathways for Rural Youth: Experience Sampling Feedback and Scoring Manual" (2024). Faculty Publications. 1905. https://dx.doi.org/10.34051/p/2024.04