Effect of Science Technology Society Model (STM) on the Science Learning Outcomes of the Students Majoring in Elementary Teacher Education

Abstract

The problem in this study is whether there is a significant influence on the application of the Science Technology Society (STM) model on the science learning outcomes of students. The purpose of this study was to determine whether or not there was a significant influence on the application of the Science Technology Society (STM) model to the learning outcomes of Science. The research applied quasi-experimental quantitative research. The subjects of this research were students of Primary School Teacher Department, Faculty of Educational Science, Universitas Negeri Makassar, Indonesia in the academic year of 2017. Thirty-two students consisting of sixteen students in the experimental group and the same number of students in the control group. The instrument used in the Pretest and Posttest was the description test form which has been validated by the expert and the item was tested. Analyses of data used in this study were descriptive and inferential analysis techniques. This research indicates the average value in posttest of experimental group taught by the Society Technology Science model was 76.93, and the average value of posttest in the control group taught by the conventional method was 74.93.