Despite these and other problems with the implementation, however, one member of the project team visited the school and found that both teachers and students were very engaged in the curriculum.
Members of a TDT are first and foremost engaged in STEM-integrated curriculum development as teachers.
Its facade features an arcade of columns in the Ionic order above which are inscribed the names of great writers, philosophers, and thinkers, most of whom are read by students engaged in the Core Curriculum of Columbia College.
To investigate RQ2, "What aspects of the Studio STEM program affect students' motivation to engage in the curriculum?", we examined one six-session Save the Seabirds program implemented during the spring 2013 semester at one school with interviews and questionnaires (n = 14, 87.5% response rate for this Studio STEM unit).
RQ2: What aspects of the Studio STEM program affect students' motivation to engage in the curriculum?
Twenty-one first-year, master's level, vocal music students, who were engaged in an intensive vocal performance curriculum, participated in this study.
Across all three cases, teachers believed that their students not only benefitted from learning about engineering, but were engaged in the overall integrated STEM curriculum.
Remillard (2005) stated both teachers and the text of a curriculum, "are engaged in a dynamic interrelationship" (p. 221), because the ideas from one source, once interpreted, have repercussions in the classroom when implemented.
For a comparison group for the quiz, we recruited students at participating schools who had completed the prerequisites to the GEP-affiliated course but were not engaged in the GEP research-based curriculum.
