STEAM Accessibility, Availability, and Equity Framework

We designed the Accessibility, Availability, & Equity Framework to be a “traffic-light” style table with three levels: excellent (green/high), good (yellow/medium), and poor (red/low). Within each level, we developed a description of what that level would look like for the given component. The components can be seen below. The “Post-Secondary Degree Pathways” component is specific to higher education institutions and should not be applied to K-12 education. Similarly, the “Adaptations for Distance Learning” and “Availability and Integration of Learning Support” components are specific to education during the COVID-19 pandemic. We were able to utilize this framework to analyze data we collected from the PED to measure how accessible, available, and equitable STEAM education was in the school districts of northern New Mexico for some of the components.

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