STEM

The latest international survey shows that Australian students’ mathematics and science achievement levels continue to slide. So what it will take to lift them?

Sue Thomson explores what the results from an international assessment of mathematics and science reveal about the students in a typical Australian classroom.

An ACER research review suggests that fundamental STEM skills should be established in primary school and that the most effective way to do this is through an integrated approach to teaching STEM.

Fun, creative hands-on approaches to STEM education encourage student engagement, as Liam Hensel explains.

Researchers are investigating ways to reverse the decline in student performance, especially to close the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous students’ performance in STEM.

As participation in STEM subjects in secondary and tertiary schools declines, the search is on to find new ways to engage students in science studies.