Indonesian Science Teachers’ Views on Attitude, Knowledge, and Application of STEM

Abstract

This study aims to describe Indonesian science teachers’ views on STEM attitude, STEM knowledge, and STEM application. The survey method was used in this study. Ninety-three Indonesian science teachers at junior high schools in Indonesia from four of 11 provinces with the largest number teachers such as Lampung, Banten, Jawa Tengah, and Jawa Timur were surveyed. The instrument in this study consisted of 30 items. The quantitative analysis was performed to address the level of three domains such as STEM attitude, STEM knowledge, and STEM application. The results showed that Indonesian science teachers’ views are very good on STEM attitude (=4.68), moderate-level category on STEM application (=3.99), and low-level category on STEM knowledge (=3.72). It can be concluded that Indonesian science teachers believe that they have very good STEM attitude, moderate-level category on STEM application, and low-level category on STEM knowledge. These findings recommended to science teachers or science educators in Indonesia to promote STEM Education in the national curriculum especially in science subject to improve STEM attitude, STEM knowledge, and STEM application of Indonesian science teachers.

Keywords

• Indonesian Science Teachers
• STEM attitude
• STEM knowledge
• STEM application

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