CAREER: Second Chance STEM: Uncovering School Policies Structuring Access to and Engagement in High School STEM Credit Recovery

Online STEM credit courses have become attractive to school leaders as a way to support students who fail STEM courses in face-to-face school year settings. However, there is little research about the processes involved in how schools make decisions regarding student credit recovery. This study is engaged in data collection in high schools in a diverse county including credit recovery classroom observations, interviews, and administrative data to measure and evaluate policies around credit recovery. The poster focuses on the development of a classroom observation protocol, the first designed to measure support and engagement of an in-person classroom where students engage in asynchronous instruction.