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| 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 |