Systematic Review of STEM Learning and Resilience

This AISL Literature Review and Synthesis project was designed to help integrate STEM and resilience skills in the out-of-school time (OST) field.

By establishing the evidence-base this project can expedite several urgent steps forward: 1) assessing strengths and gaps in this growing work connecting STEM and resilience, 2) defining overlapping or integrated STEM+SED practices, and 3) defining skills that are important to both fields and proposing robust assessments based on precise definitions. We designed our study to map the landscape of STEM+ resilience in OST. Which youth skills are the most common across research, policy and practice? And among K-12 youth in OST programs, how are the skills at the overlap of STEM and resilience conceptualized, implemented, and measured? In other words, how does the field conceptualize STEM+ resilience in terms of theories and frameworks? How does the field “do” or promote STEM+ resilience in OST learning environments, and how does the field measure youth outcomes of STEM+ resilience?

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