Examintion of Integrated Stem Education in Physics: Students’ Attitude towards Stem

Year 2019, Volume: 14 , 55 - 59, 20.09.2019

Secil Alnıak , Feral Ogan Bekıroglu

Abstract

In
this study, effects of STEM Education on the attitudes of students towards STEM
education was examined. In the first semester of the 2018-2019 academic year,
the study was carried out with 65 students attending the 7th grade of a public
school in Istanbul. The experimental group consisted of 31 students and the
control group consisted of 34 students. STEM course was conducted between 28
November and 11 January. In this research, pre - test post - test experimental
design with control group was used. STEM Attitude Scale was used as data
collection tool. This scale was applied to both groups as a pre-test and then a
post-test to measure and compare the effect of STEM activities. When the
quantitative data were analyzed, it was seen that integrated STEM education had
a positive effect on STEM attitudes of students.

Keywords

STEM education, Physics

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