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STEM Performance and Supply: Assessing the Evidence for Education Policy

Partners' Institution
Fundacion para la Formacion Tecnica en Maquina-Herramienta

Year of publication
2019

Educational stage
University Level

Journal name
JOURNAL OF SCIENCE EDUCATION AND TECHNOLOGY

Thematic Area
Definition and characteristics of STEAM

Summary
The relationship between education policy and workforce policy has long been uneasy. It is widely believed in many quarters of American society that the U.S. education system is in decline and, what's more, that it bears significant responsibility for a wide range of social ills, including stagnant wages, increasing inequality, high unemployment, and overall economic lethargy. However, as analyzed in this paper, the preponderance of evidence suggests that the U.S. education system has produced ample supplies of students to respond to STEM labor market demand. The pipeline of STEM-potential students is similarly strong and expanding.

Relevance for Complex Systems Knowledge
- A study of the stem methodology in general is carried out to see its effect on the social level in terms of student labour demand.
- The methodology is based on a quantitative study carried out through student interviews.
- It is carried out through a quantitative analysis of the data obtained in the interviews.
- The preponderance of evidence suggests that the U.S. education system has produced ample supplies of students to respond to STEM labor market demand. The “pipeline” of STEM-potential students is similarly strong and expanding.

The influence of STEM education in a society where there are social ills, wage stagnation, gender inequality, high unemployment and economic lethargy, increasing the labour demand of students.

Point of Strength
The influence of STEM education at the societal level on young people in US society

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10956-018-9758-9

Keywords
STEM workforce, STEM education, STEM policy