Teachers' STEM club activities implementation levels

Yıl 2024, Cilt: 7 Sayı: 2, 141 - 161

Seyide Eroglu , Hasan Gökçe , Melek Karaca , Oktay Bektas

https://doi.org/10.70325/eyyad.1529931

Öz

The aim of this research is to determine the level of implementation of STEM club activities by teachers in schools in terms of teacher, student, planning and implementation dimensions, taking into account gender and seniority variables. The study uses the cross-sectional survey model design and explanatory correlation model. The study has chosen the purposive sampling design. The sample of the research consists of 139 teachers and carried out STEM club activities in the 2019-2020 academic year. The STEM Club Evaluation Scale was used as the data collection tool. As a result of descriptive statistical analyses, the independent samples t-test, correlation and regression analyses, each dimension in the scale was found to statistically significantly predict the level at which teachers implement STEM club activities. In this context, the dimensions of teachers and students explain a high level of the variance in teachers’ STEM club activities implementation level, while the dimension of planning and implementation explains this at a moderate level. The study has concluded teachers’ STEM club activities implementation level to not differ according to gender in terms of the dimensions of teachers and of planning and implementation, while this level does differ in favor of females in terms of the dimension of students. At the end of the study, suggestions were made that other studies on STEM clubs could be enriched by taking into account different dimensions such as teachers, students, planning and implementation, and that studies examining variables such as gender and professional seniority not only as independent variables but also as moderating and mediating variables could be added to the literature.

Anahtar Kelimeler

STEM education, Social club studies, Quantitative research

Etik Beyan

Yapılan bu çalışmada “Yükseköğretim Kurumları Bilimsel Araştırma ve Yayın Etiği Yönergesi” kapsamında uyulması belirtilen tüm kurallara uyulmuştur. Yönergenin ikinci bölümü olan “Bilimsel Araştırma ve Yayın Etiğine Aykırı Eylemler” başlığı altında belirtilen eylemlerden hiçbiri gerçekleştirilmemiştir. Mevcut çalışma 2020 yılı öncesine ait olduğu gerekçesinden hareketle etik kurul iznine başvurulmamıştır. Buna ek olarak, gönüllülük esasına dayalı olarak, örnekleme ilişkin kimlik bilgileri alınmamıştır. Sadece kimlik bilgilerini ele vermeyecek demografik bilgiler alınmıştır.

Destekleyen Kurum

Destekleyen herhangi bir kurum yoktur.

Öğretmenlerin STEM kulübü etkinliklerini uygulama seviyeleri

Öz

Bu araştırmanın amacı, öğretmenlerin STEM kulübü etkinliklerini okullarda uygulama düzeylerini öğretmen, öğrenci, planlama ve uygulama boyutları açısından cinsiyet ve kıdem değişkenlerini dikkate alarak belirlemektir. Araştırmada kesitsel tarama modeli tasarımı ve açıklayıcı korelasyon modeli kullanılmıştır. Araştırmada amaçlı örnekleme seçilmiştir. Araştırmanın örneklemini 2019-2020 eğitim öğretim yılında STEM kulübü etkinlikleri yürüten 139 öğretmen oluşturmaktadır. Veri toplama aracı olarak STEM Kulübü Değerlendirme Ölçeği kullanılmıştır. Tanımlayıcı istatistiksel analizler, bağımsız örneklem t-testi, korelasyon ve regresyon analizleri sonucunda, ölçekte yer alan her bir boyutun öğretmenlerin STEM kulübü etkinliklerini uygulama düzeyini istatistiksel olarak anlamlı şekilde yordadığı bulunmuştur. Bu bağlamda öğretmen ve öğrenci boyutları öğretmenlerin STEM kulübü etkinliklerini uygulama düzeyindeki varyansı yüksek düzeyde açıklarken, planlama ve uygulama boyutu bunu orta düzeyde açıklamaktadır. Öğretmen ile planlama ve uygulama boyutları açısından öğretmenlerin STEM kulübü etkinliklerini uygulama düzeylerinin cinsiyete göre farklılaşmadığı, öğrenci boyutu açısından ise bu düzeyin kadınlar lehine farklılaştığı sonucuna ulaşılmıştır. Çalışma sonunda, STEM kulüpleri ile ilgili diğer çalışmalarda, öğretmen, öğrenci, planlama ve uygulama gibi farklı boyutların da dikkate alınarak çalışmaların zenginleştirilebileceği, cinsiyet ve mesleki kıdem gibi değişkenlerin yalnızca bağımsız değişkenler olarak değil, aynı zamanda düzenleyici ve aracı değişkenler olarak incelendiği çalışmaların alan yazına kazandırılabileceği şeklinde öneriler ortaya konmuştur.

Anahtar Kelimeler

STEM eğitimi, sosyal kulüp çalışmaları, nitel araştırma

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