Stephanie Ivey’s research while affiliated with University of Memphis and other places

... As STEM identity is multifaceted, this implementation of the VIP program includes several intervention strategies that focus on academic, mentoring, community, and networking-related activities (see [31] for a description). Academic success and satisfaction with one's major, feeling part of a STEM community, participating in STEM activities, interacting with role models, collaborating and 'STEM communicating,' understanding career opportunities, and developing STEM self-efficacy all play a role in facilitating the development of STEM identity. ...

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Board 357: Psychosocial and Skills-Based Outcomes of Participating in Vertically Integrated Projects (VIP)

... The industry needs skilled professionals to remain competitive, and academia needs to stay up-to-date with the latest industry trends and technologies. Collaboration between these two sectors can help bridge the gap and provide students with practical knowledge and hands-on experience [4]. Quality education is critical to the success of engineering students [5]. ...

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Major Challenges in Engineering Education

... In this work, the leadership from three separate but similar programs operating at independent urban research universities, collaborate in a Track 3 NSF S-STEM funded project with the overall goal of not only increasing student success but in studying and extending their programs to better reach student populations in need. This collaboration team refers to itself as 'The Urban STEM Collaboratory', and consists of three unique intervention programs, one from each university, that support student success and have demonstrated positive student outcomes throughout the duration of the project, [3,4,5]. Although there are three separate intervention programs, the collaboration provides a platform on which each university can extend their support structures to further meet the needs of diverse urban populations, as well as to study and understand the needs of these populations more nearly. ...

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Board 351: NSF S-STEM Track 3: Scaling Up Student Success through Broadening Participation Beyond our S-STEM Cohort

... Students in the ELC courses had multiple forms of support not available to students in non-ELC sections of composition [15]. Every year starting in 2019, several of the students participated in a one-week Summer Bridge program in the summer before their first semester, which smoothed their transition to college and helped establish a sense of community [16]. In addition, some of the concurrent enrollment courses in the ELC program were supported by a near-peer teaching assistant (TA) (2017-present), a Peer Advocate Leader (PAL) (2017-present), and an Individual Peer Mentor (2019-present) who met with each student once a week [17]. ...

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"I’m not a big English person but I liked this class”: Lessons from a collaboration between the School of Engineering and the English Department

... In the current study, we address gaps in prior research by designing and investigating the impact of an integrated steM camp on middle school students' STEM identity, interest in environmental issues, and interest in STEM careers. We focused on STEM interest because of the research that shows that STEM identity influences student persistence in career choice (Stewart, 2022;Stewart et al., 2023). We focused on STEM interest because of the research that shows that students who become interested in STEM by 8th grade are more likely to choose a STEM career (Tai et al., 2006) and research that shows that interest is a greater predictor of students' decision to choose a STEM career path (Maltese & Tai, 2011). ...

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Conjecture Mapping an Integrated steM Camp to Support Middle School Students’ STEM Identity and STEM Interest

... This study utilized version 1.1, which is free, offering an academic limit of 10 million tweets per month for each project or 500,000 for standard projects, with variable update request rates [Twitter Inc., n.d.]. In summary, Twitter API provides open access for researchers and fits within the scope of sentiment analysis due to its consistency in post-character length [Sarram and Ivey, 2022]. ...

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Clustering and Analysis of Tweets Related to Petrobras

... To foster interaction among scholars across campuses and create a sense of belonging within the Urban STEM community, the program adopted CourseNetworking (CN), an academic social networking platform developed at IUPUI. Using social media to engage college students is not a novel approach and its positive impacts have been well-documented by numerous scholars [8][9][10][11][12]. The reason we chose to implement CN was its unique combination of social networking features, a gamification engine (Anar Seeds) that tracks and incentivizes participation, a digital badging system, and a robust ePortfolio tool. ...

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Board 420: Urban STEM Collaboratory: 5 Years of Lessons Learned

... In this work, the leadership from three separate but similar programs operating at independent urban research universities, collaborate in a Track 3 NSF S-STEM funded project with the overall goal of not only increasing student success but in studying and extending their programs to better reach student populations in need. This collaboration team refers to itself as 'The Urban STEM Collaboratory', and consists of three unique intervention programs, one from each university, that support student success and have demonstrated positive student outcomes throughout the duration of the project, [3,4,5]. Although there are three separate intervention programs, the collaboration provides a platform on which each university can extend their support structures to further meet the needs of diverse urban populations, as well as to study and understand the needs of these populations more nearly. ...

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Board 351: NSF S-STEM Track 3: Scaling Up Student Success through Broadening Participation Beyond our S-STEM Cohort

... Random forest is a machine learning method that uses multiple decision trees to improve predictive performance while avoiding overfitting (Ho 1995). It has been successfully applied to predict livability-related qualities (Sarram & Ivey 2018). A random forest model was trained on 80% of the dataset to predict each index based on urban form attributes. ...

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Urban form and livability: socioeconomic and built environment indicators

... Existing literature mostly focused on the relationship between freight and standard of living of individual countries (Leite et al., 2022;Sarram & Ivey, 2017). Moreover, many studies merely emphasized the impact of air freight and air quality (Facanha & Horvath, 2007;Ramani, Jaikumar & Charman, 2019), but not the overall quality of living of humans across countries. ...

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The Impact of Air Freight and the Human Development Index: The Volume of Freight, Health, Knowledge and Standard of Living Across Countries