Pre-service teachers' attitudes towards STEM: Differences based on multiple variables and the relationship with academic achievement
  
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Doç. Dr. Büşra KARTAL Kırşehir Ahi Evran Üniversitesi, Türkiye
Prof. Dr. Adem TAŞDEMİR Kırşehir Ahi Evran Üniversitesi, Türkiye
Makale Türü Açık Erişim Özgün Makale (Diğer hakemli uluslarası dergilerde yayınlanan tam makale)
Dergi Adı INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF TECHNOLOGY IN EDUCATION
Dergi ISSN 2689-2758 Wos Dergi
Dergi Tarandığı Indeksler Journals Indexed in Eric
Makale Dili İngilizce Basım Tarihi 01-2021
Cilt / Sayı / Sayfa 4 / 2 / 200–228 DOI 10.46328/ijte.58
Makale Linki https://www.ijte.net/index.php/ijte/article/download/58/pdf
Özet
STEM education has benefits for students, such as increasing achievement and improving attitudes, motivation, interest toward STEM disciplines, and higher-order thinking skills. Teachers' characteristics, perceptions, and attitudes related to STEM influence teachers' implementation of integrative STEM approaches and, as a result, shape the learning environment. This study examined 513 pre-service teachers' attitudes towards STEM in terms of multiple variables (department, class level, gender, having a traineeship, or information about STEM) and investigates the relationship between participants' attitudes and academic grade point averages. Participants were pre-service preschool, classroom, science, and mathematics teachers that can be considered the basis of the STEM pipeline. Data were collected via a survey and were analyzed using descriptive statistics, t-test, ANOVA, and Pearson product-moment correlation. Results show that pre-service science teachers, senior pre-service
Anahtar Kelimeler
Pre-service teachers | Attitudes towards STEM | Teacher preparation | Academic achievement