Definir STEM. ¿Por qué lo llamamos STEM cuando en realidad es solo ciencia?

STEM was the main topic at the 2019 ASTE international conference, with at least 8 posters, 27 oral presentations and 3 workshops promoting STEM classrooms, STEM instruction/teaching, STEM lessons, STEM summer camps, STEM clubs, and STEM schools without providing an operational conceptualization or definition of what STEM is. Some oral presentations advocated for disciplines integration, but the example provided were mainly "inquiry based" and "Engineering Design Process" practices which in fact did not differed from the overly used, poorly conceptualized and epistemologically incongruent hands on/minds off type of classroom activities.

Therefore, it is worth considering:

(1) Why do we call it STEM if it does not differ from practices being implemented for decades (e.g. inquiry, hands on activities)?

(2) What benefits (if any) can this STEMification mentality/trend bring to science education?

For the reliability test

What do you think about the "academic inbreeding"? Academic inbreeding means former students being professors at the same university they were formed.

Does Academic Inbreeding Affect Scientific production? Does Academic Inbreeding Affect teaching?

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The recent move from ASA might be interesting to read: Wasserstein, R. L.; Schirm, A. L. & Lazar, N. A. Moving to a World Beyond "p <0.05" The American Statistician 2019 , 73 , 1-19. This is a great editorial on a special number at The American Statistician discussing essentially what is statistical significance and how it should (not!) be used. The ideas are varied, the solutions not easy, but the main message is clear: "The ASA Statement on P-Values and Statistical Significance stopped just short of recommending that declarations of “statistical significance” be abandoned. We take that step here. We conclude, based on our review of the articles in this special issue and the broader literature, that it is time to stop using the term “statistically significant” entirely. Nor should variants such as “significantly different,” “p < 0.05,” and “nonsignificant” survive, whether expressed in words, by asterisks in a table, or in some other way.". And so... this is what arguably the best statisticians in the world propose. And... now what?

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