Vinson Carter
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Associate Professor at the University of Arkansas
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Vinson Carter, an Associate Professor at the University of Arkansas, focuses his research on integrated STEM education, particularly within elementary settings. His work investigates key practices and attributes essential for effective integrated STEM learning, including the role of tinkering and 'take apart' activities. Carter also examines the influence of teacher self-efficacy and attitudes on STEM implementation. A significant portion of his recent publications explores the integration of STEM with literacy, highlighting the connection between compassion and empathy in these combined approaches. He has also studied ways of thinking and their relationship to STEM-based problem-solving, as well as efforts to strengthen mathematical self-efficacy in preservice elementary teachers.
Carter has a notable record of collaboration with colleagues at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, including Michael K. Daugherty (7 shared publications), Leah R. Cheek (5 shared publications), and Christian Z. Goering (3 shared publications). His scholarly contributions are reflected in an h-index of 8 and 229 total citations across 25 publications.
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- h-index: 8
- Publications: 25
- Citations: 231
Selected Publications
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Changing Attitudes: Strengthening Mathematical Self‐Efficacy in Preservice Elementary Teachers (2026)
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Key Practices in P-6 Integrated STEM Education: Delphi Panel Insights (2025)
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Essential Practices and Attributes of Integrated STEM in Elementary Education (2024)
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Elementary teachers' self-efficacy and its role in STEM implementation (2024)
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The grading gradient: Teacher motivations for varied redo and retake policies (2018)
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The Challenges of Figure Overuse in STEM Education: Lessons Learned From the Recent History of Science Education (2018)
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The Nature of Interdisciplinary STEM Education (2017)
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The Nature of Interdisciplinary STEM Education (2017)
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Integrating Informational Text and STEM: An Innovative and Necessary Curricular Approach (2017)
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Expanding Earth Science in STEM: A Model (2015)
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Elementary STEM Education: The Future for Technology and Engineering Education? (2014)
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- Elementary teachers' self-efficacy and its role in STEM implementation
- Essential Practices and Attributes of Integrated STEM in Elementary Education
- Key Practices in P-6 Integrated STEM Education: Delphi Panel Insights
- Essential Practices and Attributes of Integrated STEM in Elementary Education
- Key Practices in P-6 Integrated STEM Education: Delphi Panel Insights
- Changing Attitudes: Strengthening Mathematical Self‐Efficacy in Preservice Elementary Teachers
- Essential Practices and Attributes of Integrated STEM in Elementary Education
- Key Practices in P-6 Integrated STEM Education: Delphi Panel Insights
- Elementary teachers' self-efficacy and its role in STEM implementation
- Elementary teachers' self-efficacy and its role in STEM implementation
- Changing Attitudes: Strengthening Mathematical Self‐Efficacy in Preservice Elementary Teachers
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