The Impact Of Stem Practices On The Stem Attitudes Of 4th Grade Students
The Effect Of Stem Practices On 4th Grade Students' Stem Attitudes (AI)
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Uluslararası Bilim ve Eğitim Kongresi 2019 (UBEK2019)
It is of great importance that developing countries renew their educational systems and educate individuals that can adapt to age in order to be able to participate in the competition of technology and economy in the 21st century.With regard to the educational system of developed and developing countries, new approaches show that science, technology, engineering and mathematics (stem) education are in the forefront.In Turkey, in recent years, studies in the field of stem education have rapidly increased and the stem emphasis has also taken place in the teaching program of science classes from 4th to 8th grade.This research is designed in the form of an action research.The study group was formed by 26 students located in the 4/a branch of the Afyonkarahisar emirdağ i·lçesi gömlu i·lçesi school.The course of applied sciences continued throughout the unit of "Lighting Technologies from the past to the present".Data was collected using the stem attitude test before and after application.The study used the stem attitude scale adapted to the Turkish by Gülhan and Shahin (2016).This scale consists of sub-dimensions of mathematics, science, engineering, technology and 21st century skills.In the analysis of the data, it was used to determine the normal distribution of the data as a "related group t test".At the end of the analysis, it was determined that there was a statistically significant difference in the entire scale between the pre-test and the final test average to the final test.There is also a significant difference between the size of the 21st century skills in the stem attitude scale of the pre-test and the final test average, statistically, in favour of the final test.