The Effectiveness of STEM-Based on Gender Differences: The Impact of Physics Concept Understanding

Year 2019, , 753 - 761, 15.07.2019

Rumadani Sagala Rofiqul Umam Andi Thahir Antomi Saregar , İndah Wardani

https://doi.org/10.12973/eu-jer.8.3.753

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to describe the effectiveness of STEM on the physics concepts understanding seen from gender differences. The research method used is a type of quasi-experimental design with 2x2 factorial design and saturated sampling technique. The data collecting technique used a tested method to see the results of students’ concept understanding. Hypothesis testing was done using two-way ANOVA 2 x 2 factorial designs. The results of the study are: (1) there are differences in STEM and conventional learning on concepts understanding and the use of STEM learning is more effective than the conventional one; (2) there are differences in the results of understanding the concept between male and female students where male students are higher than female students; and, (3) there is no interaction between learning and gender towards concepts understanding. The research recommends designing the STEM-integrated ESciT learning to be relevant with the indicator measurements and to manage the learning effectively to obtain optimum learning outcome.

Keywords

ESciT, STEM, gender differences, understanding concepts

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