Prospective Madrasah Teachers' Scientific Competencies Integrated with Scientific Literacy through the STEM Approach

Abstract

This study aims to measure the scientific competence of prospective teachers of Madrasah Ibtidaiyah integrated scientific literacy through a STEM approach. The research method used was descriptive quantitative with a sample of 40 students from the same study program at two different universities. The selected sample has taken basic science courses with a minimum score of B. This research used a purposive sampling technique, where the sampling actively participates in learning activities. Data were collected using a set of instruments to analyze the prospective teachers’ scientific competence. The instruments were declared valid based on expert judgment and showed a Cronbach Alpha score of 0.68 before being used. Scientific competence data were obtained from the results before and after the essay, practicum, multiple-choice test, and questionnaire instruments. Data were analyzed descriptive quantitative using inferential statistics with a T-test. Inferential statistical analysis revealed differences in scientific competence of prospective madrasah teachers in Study Program A and Study Program B (t = 5.98 1.83). The measurement results of the test of science content mastery aspect with an average of 58.3 and 50.8. The practicum mastery of science process skills results from the problem-solving skills test are 48.4 and 39.6. From the questionnaire results on scientific literacy, students still need to improve their independence in studying science, scientific thinking skills, the ability to use scientific knowledge in problem-solving, and integrating the STEM approach. From the findings, it can be concluded that the analysis of the scientific competence of prospective madrasah teachers shows an apparent and significant difference. The prospective madrasa teachers’ scientific competence is needed to prepare students as prospective teachers who are STEM literate.

Feasibility of Android-Based Application SCIQU (Science in Al-Quran) as Science Learning Media for Madrasah Ibtidaiyah (MI)

“…From the analysis stage, it was found that the material that met the needs of students and teachers was material about a clean and healthy lifestyle for grade V Madrasah Ibtidaiyah (MI) students (Rokhimawan et al, 2022). This material can be presented easily in the form of illustrated stories (comics) that will attract students to learn.…”

“…One of them can help humans in learning science and present innovations for technology media-based learning, the development of information and communication technology as a tool that can develop according to the demands of the times to offer new things for education (Bali et al, 2019). In applying technology to education, two basic conditions are required: the technology must make teaching strategies more effective and the technology must always be available and accessible (Robson, 2003). One of the latest learning media that is very accessible is mobile learning (Firdawati et al, 2021;Yulianci et al, 2021).…”

Pre-service teacher in STEM education: An integrative review and mapping of the Indonesian research literature

“…In the Indonesian databases, 17 articles were published in seven of 54 Sinta STEM-related journals. Six articles (Irwanto et al, 2022;Ngabekti et al, 2019;Rokhimawan et al, 2022;Rosana et al, 2021;Rusydiyah et al, 2021;Yulianti et al, 2022) All of the 110 researchers published at most 1 article as first author. The authors in our corpus published at most two articles, either one as the first author or both as coauthors.…”

“…The authors in our corpus published at most two articles, either one as the first author or both as coauthors. Winarno (in Mayasari et al, 2019 andWinarno et al, 2017) and Susilawati (in Rokhimawan et al, 2022 andRusydiyah et al, 2021) are two other researchers who published two articles. Nevertheless, although it could be assumed that there are currently no particular researchers dominating the Indonesian field, the number of researchers involved and the collaboration that has been established have become the embryo for the development of STEM implementation and research for PSTs in Indonesia.…”

“…Researchers report that Indonesian PSTs need more knowledge and competence in STEM conception and understanding. They struggled to describe integration across the STEM disciplines (Widiastuti et al, 2020), had difficulty in identifying and connecting the concepts from different disciplines into a multidiscipline context (Ismet et al, 2020), and lacked scientific competence regarding the STEM approach (Rokhimawan et al, 2022). Researchers noticed that this occurred due to limited exposure to engineering design during pedagogical coursework (Widiastuti et al, 2020), classroom activities not designed for context-based learning, and they do not have prior knowledge related to the context (Ismet et al, 2020).…”