Examining Science and Technology/Engineering Educators’ Views of Teaching Biomedical Concepts through Physical Computing

Programming and automation continue to evolve rapidly and advance the capabilities of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields. However, physical computing (the integration of programming and interactive physical devices) integrated within biomedical contexts remains an area of limited focus in secondary STEM education programs. As this is an emerging area, many educators may not be well prepared to teach physical computing concepts within authentic biomedical contexts. This shortcoming provided the rationale for this study, to examine if professional development (PD) had a noticeable influence on high school science, and technology and engineering (T&E) teachers’: (1) perceptions of teaching biomedical and computational thinking (CT) concepts, and (2) plans to integrate physical computing within the context of authentic biomedical engineering challenges. The findings revealed a significant difference in the amount of biomedical and CT concepts that teachers planned to implement as a result of the PD. Using a modified version of the Science Teaching Efficacy Belief Instrument (STEBI-A) (Riggs & Enochs, 1990), analyses revealed significant gains in teachers’ self-efficacy toward teaching both biomedical and CT concepts from the PD. Further analyses revealed that teachers reported increases in their perceived knowledge of biomedical and CT concepts, and a significant increase in their intent to collaborate with a science or T&E educator outside of their content area. This study provides implications for researchers and educators to integrate more biomedical and physical computing instruction at the secondary education level.

This preprint has not undergone any improvements or corrections since submission and peer review. The Version of Record of this article is published in Journal of Science Education and Technology, and is available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s10956-022-09996-7

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Work Title Examining Science and Technology/Engineering Educators’ Views of Teaching Biomedical Concepts through Physical Computing
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  1. Tyler S. Love
  2. Joshua P. Cysyk
  3. Anilchandra Attaluri
  4. Robert D. Tunks
  5. Kevin Harter
  6. Renee Sipos
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  1. biomedical engineering education
  2. Integrated STEM education
  3. Technology and Engineering Education
  4. Science Education
  5. computer science education
  6. Teacher Preparation
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  1. The authors acknowledge the support from The Pennsylvania State University Commonwealth Campuses Center Nodes (C3N)
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Publication Date October 2022
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