STEM Education: Exploring Practices Across Education Levels

Setyowati, Yeni; Firda, Rahmania; Kasmita, Windy

doi:10.1007/s42330-021-00172-4

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“…The development of skills is recommended to start early in the learner’s life from Early Childhood Education (Çiftçi & Topçu, 2022 ). Setyowati et al ( 2021 ) confirm that STEM-based teaching spans across the school levels from Early Childhood to secondary school education. Primary schools have a significant role to play in the pursuit of the central goal of successively developing STEM skills throughout the learner’s education.…”

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Preservice Primary Teachers’ Perceptions of STEM-Based Teaching in Natural Sciences and Technology Classrooms

Mafugu

Tsakeni

Jita

2022

Can. J. Sci. Math. Techn. Educ.

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The teaching of natural sciences and technology in primary schools presents an opportunity to use innovative approaches to teach STEM-based activities. The subject presents opportunities for learners to experience STEM-based instructional approaches in their early school years; therefore, it is essential that preservice primary school teachers are adequately prepared for the task. This study explored the perceptions of preservice teachers of STEM-based teaching in natural sciences and technology classrooms. Using a qualitative research approach and a single case study of a science and technology teaching methods course at a South African university, five participants were purposively selected from a group of 42 preservice teachers who had participated in a project to develop lesson plans and reflect on how to teach STEM. The data collected were analysed using thematic content analysis techniques. The findings indicate that the preservice teachers used natural sciences as an entry point to teach STEM and underestimated the technology component. The preservice teachers had the perception that STEM is taught through activity-based strategies while incorporating assessment for learning. Although they identified activities that could be used to teach STEM, they did not link the activities with developing specific skills in the lesson plans. The study recommends that preservice teachers be taught to link STEM activities with the development of specific STEM skills.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 94%

Preservice Primary Teachers’ Perceptions of STEM-Based Teaching in Natural Sciences and Technology Classrooms

Mafugu

Tsakeni

Jita

2022

Can. J. Sci. Math. Techn. Educ.

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“…In these contexts, researchers concerned about theoretical frameworks of STEM concepts (Bybee, 2010; Xie et al, 2015), STEM teaching and learning (Y. Li, 2020; Murphy et al, 2019; Setyowati et al, 2021), teacher education (Nguyen Thi et al, 2020; Radloff & Guzey, 2016), racial and ethnic differences in STEM education (Blackwell et al, 2009; Morales et al, 2023; Snidal, 2021), evaluation of STEM education (Griffiths et al, 2021; Saxton et al, 2014), and self-efficacy in STEM education (Jaipal-Jamani & Angeli, 2017; Luo et al, 2021; Yang et al, 2023). However, no visual bibliometrics overview of research progress in STEM education has been reported to the best of our knowledge.…”

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confidence: 99%

Research Progress of STEM Education Based on Visual Bibliometric Analysis

Cai,

Zhu,

Tian

2023

Sage Open

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Nowadays, science, technology, engineering, mathematics (STEM) education has been developed and implemented in many countries. To better understand the research progress in STEM education worldwide, we analyzed 1910 publications collected from the Web of Science Core Collection database. This bibliometric study was performed through software VOSviewer and CiteSpace. Results showed that the research on STEM education will remain thriving in the following years. The USA is the most active country in the research field of STEM education, and the whole world cooperated closely. The majorities of significant institutions in this field belong to the USA. International Journal of STEM Education, Journal of Science Education and Technology and Science Education are the main publications. According to the cluster results of keywords, STEM, STEM education, self-efficacy, technology constitute the knowledge base for STEM education studies. Based the analysis results of keywords and burst detection, STEM achievements, different approaches to discipline integration, educational equality, and teacher education will be the research hotspot in the future. The results give a comprehensive overview on STEM education for scholars quickly understanding the overall progress.

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“…According to a Canadian study (Pagani et al, 2010) it was found that early math skills were stronger predictors of overall academic success than reading skills or social-emotional skills. Findings from such research, along with psychology studies according to which brain architecture develops 80% prenatally, have led to numerous concerns about early math education (Clements and Sarama, 2014;Setyowati, Firda and Kasmita, 2021;Abramovich and Connell, 2021). Other concerns on this topic (CERME11 working group, conferences such as TWG13, POEM4, ICME 13, ERME, etc.)…”

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STEM Strategies for Economic Growth

Neacşu¹,

Samarescu²

2022

New Trends in Sustainable Business and Consumption

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This paper aims to raise awareness of the importance of education in economic growth and not just education in general, but mainly of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) education. Such signals are always useful, in order to align ourselves with other countries that have already acquired experience in implementing STEM education and can measure positive effects for the economy. The present research proposes to approach STEM education through the perspective of the most effective strategies applied so far in various regions of the world and that can be adapted to the Romanian reality. This is also useful for the steps needed to implement the recently adopted project "Educated Romania" (2021), which essentially aims to support education based on STEM competencies. The micro-research in the second part of the paper is a quantitative one that verifies whether there is, at the population level of parents in general, an awareness of STEM education competencies. It was investigated in what extent people are familiar with STEM education, if they can describe it and how interested would be to encourage their children to learn science, technical subjects, engineering and math skills. Moreover, the respondents' perception regarding the impact that such an approach would have on the economic development of a country was questioned.

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STEM Education: Exploring Practices Across Education Levels

Cited by 11 publications

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Preservice Primary Teachers’ Perceptions of STEM-Based Teaching in Natural Sciences and Technology Classrooms

Preservice Primary Teachers’ Perceptions of STEM-Based Teaching in Natural Sciences and Technology Classrooms

Research Progress of STEM Education Based on Visual Bibliometric Analysis

STEM Strategies for Economic Growth

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