@article{article_319634, title={An Investigation of the Views on the Integration of Science Technology and Mathematics in a Mathematics Teacher Education Program}, journal={Bogazici University Journal of Education}, volume={32}, pages={3–15}, year={2015}, author={Delice, Ali and Aydın, Emin and Derin, Gökhan and Yaşın, Ömer}, keywords={STEM integration,Teacher education,Attitudes towards STEM}, abstract={<p>STEM is a new concept for Turkey. Interest is increasing in the academic community of the related fields and </p> <p>especially in the field of education of science and mathematics. At the practical level there are sparse </p> <p>individual efforts of practice in high schools by teachers of science and mathematics. Therefore our primary </p> <p>aim is to understand how this idea is reflected in the minds of teacher candidates of the related fields in a nonintegrated </p> <p>mathematics-science program. We also analyzed the curricula followed in the above programs. </p> <p>Our sample consisted of 349 teacher candidates from the departments of mathematics, science and computer </p> <p>education and instructional technologies education who were in their final years. For this inquiry we use a </p> <p>mixed methods strategy. We use both quantitative and qualitative data. Quantitative data comes from the </p> <p>scale developed by the researchers “The integration of STEM” and also from a questionnaire for the </p> <p>demographics of the sample. Qualitative data comes from the programs used in the departments. Document </p> <p>analysis method and descriptive & inferential statistics techniques, are used to analyze data from the scale </p> <p>and from the questionnaire. Findings of the study suggest positive attitudes towards STEM integration. </p> <p>Findings also indicate similar and different attitudes with respect to the department. Reasons for these were </p> <p>discussed with regard to the current literature and to the curricula of the departments under study. </p>}, number={1}, publisher={Boğazici University}