Examining a Technology and Design Course in Middle School in Turkey: Its Potential to Contribute to STEM Education

2020 ◽  
pp. 295-312
Author(s):  
Behiye Ubuz
Keyword(s):  
Middle School ◽  
Stem Education ◽  
Technology And Design

scholarly journals Analysis of Students’ Critical Thinking Skill of Middle School through STEM Education Project-Based Learning

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 54-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Mutakinati ◽  
I. Anwari ◽  
Y. Kumano
Keyword(s):  
Middle School ◽  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Stem Education ◽  
First Grade ◽  
Project Based Learning ◽  
Colloid Solution ◽  
Design Solution ◽  
Thinking Skill ◽  
Critical Thinking Skill ◽  
School Students

This research is to investigate the students` critical thinking skill by using STEM education through Project Based Learning. The study applied descriptive research design. In these lessons, the participants were 160 first grade Japanese middle school students from four classes. They were divided into nine groups each class. The instruments are worksheets to explore students’ initial knowledge about how to clean up wastewater and critical thinking processes. The worksheet consists of the designing solution, and understanding of concepts to identify critical thinking based on purpose and question, selection of information, assumption, and point of view the solution, and implication. Students were asked to design tools to clean up the wastewater. Students were given more than one chance to design the best product for wastewater treatment. The lessons consist of six lessons. The first lesson is the introduction of colloid, solution, and suspension, and discussion about wastewater. The second lesson to the fourth lesson was finding solutions and designing products. The fifth lesson was to watch a video of wastewater treatments in Japan and to optimize the solutions or products. The last lesson was to make a conclusion, to exchange presentations, and to develop discussion. Implementation of STEM education can be seen from the students` solutions, some students used biology or chemistry or physics or combination concept and Mathematics to design solution (technology) for treatment of wastewater. The result showed that the mean score of students` critical thinking skill was 2.82. The students` critical thinking skill was categorized as advanced thinker: 41.6%, practicing thinker: 30,6%, beginning thinker: 25%, and challenged thinker: 2.8%.  And the category for students` critical thinking was practicing thinker.  Practicing thinker is a stage of critical thinking development, they have enough skill in thinking to critique their own plan for systematic practice, and to construct a realistic critique of their powers of thought to solve the contextual problem.

scholarly journals An Opinions of secondary school science and mathematics teachers on STEM education

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 52
Author(s):  
Bekir Yildirim ◽  
Cumhur Türk
Keyword(s):  
Middle School ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Science Teachers ◽  
Stem Education ◽  
Mathematics Teachers ◽  
School Science ◽  
Middle School Science ◽  
Secondary School Science ◽  
And Mathematics ◽  
Science And Mathematics Teachers

In this study, the opinions of middle school science teachers and mathematics teachers towards STEM education were examined. The research was carried out for 30 hours with 28 middle school science and mathematics teachers who were working in Istanbul during the spring semester of 2016-2017 academic year. 75% of these teachers are female teachers and 25% are male teachers. The study was conducted by the case study method among qualitative research methods. For the determination of the opinions of the secondary school science and mathematics teachers by the researcher, "STEM Interview Form for Teachers" consisting of 8 questions was created. As a result of the analysis, the teachers emphasized that they did not feel sufficient about STEM education. In addition, teachers emphasized that a good STEM teacher should have STEM knowledge, pedagogy knowledge and 21st century skill knowledge. However, they emphasize that STEM education is a useful educational concept but that there may be problems that may be encountered during STEM education. Moreover, it was also found that after the STEM training, teachers had positive changes in their opinions towards Engineering and Technology. Suggestions have been made in the direction of these obtained results.

scholarly journals Examining the relationship between academic achievement and attitudes of the middle school students

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 203-212 ◽  
Author(s):  
Murat Tezer ◽  
Celalettin Özden ◽  
Mucahit Elci
Keyword(s):  
Middle School ◽  
Academic Achievement ◽  
Parent Education ◽  
Family Income ◽  
Eighth Grade ◽  
School Students ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Attitudes Towards Technology ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Technology And Design

In this study, the relationship between academic achievement and attitudes towards “technology and design lesson” of the middle school, eighth grade students’  gender, family income level, parent education level attitudes towards technology and design lesson have been investigated, and examined the relationship between attitudes and academic achievement. Eighth-grade total of 98 students selected from 3 middle schools by simple random sampling method has been identified at research in North Cyprus. The data collection tool used in this study was the ‘technology and design course attitude scale’. Descriptive survey model was used in the research. The data were analyzed using independent sample t-test, Anova, correlation, frequency and percentage calculations. At the end of the research; no significant difference found between attitudes towards technology and design lesson according to students’ gender, family income, parent education levels. Also no significant relationship found between students’ academic achievements in “technology and design course” and “attitudes toward the technology and design course”.   Keywords: Technology and design, academic achievement, attitude towards lesson, students

scholarly journals Investigation of Middle School Students’ Attitudes towards Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Education and Determination of the Predictors

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 101
Author(s):  
Cennet GÖLOĞLU DEMİR ◽  
Nagihan TANIK ÖNAL ◽  
Nezih ÖNAL
Keyword(s):  
Middle School ◽  
Middle School Students ◽  
Stem Education ◽  
Science Achievement ◽  
Career Planning ◽  
School Students ◽  
Science Technology ◽  
Attitudes Towards Science ◽  
Students Attitudes ◽  
And Mathematics

The purpose of the current study is to investigate middle school students’ attitudes towards Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education and to determine the predictors of these attitudes. The study was designed according to the relational survey model, one of the quantitative research designs. The sample of the study is comprised of 408 middle school sixth, seventh and eighth grade students. The data of the current study were collected by using a STEM-oriented attitude scale. In order to analyse the collected data, independent samples t-test, one-way variance analysis and stepwise multiple regression analysis were used. As a result of these analyses, it was determined that the students’ attitudes towards STEM vary significantly depending on the students’ gender, grade level, participation in in-school and out-of-school social activities, science and mathematics achievement. The most effective three predictors of STEM were found to be science achievement, being a 6th grader and being female. The state of being female was found to be negatively correlated with the prediction of the attitudes towards STEM. As a conclusion of the study, suggestions were made to eliminate gender-based differences in the attitudes towards STEM, to increase STEM activities in upper grades and for career planning.

“We do STEM”: Unsettled conceptions of STEM education in middle school S.T.E.M. classrooms

2018 ◽  
Vol 118 (8) ◽  
pp. 335-347 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Kloser ◽  
Matthew Wilsey ◽  
Kyra E. Twohy ◽  
Audrey D. Immonen ◽  
Ariel C. Navotas
Keyword(s):  
Middle School ◽  
Stem Education

A human-interactive robotic program for middle school STEM education

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lauren Knop ◽  
Saeedeh Ziaeefard ◽  
Guilherme A. Ribeiro ◽  
Brian R. Page ◽  
Evandro Ficanha ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Middle School ◽  
Stem Education

scholarly journals Two Decades of STEM Education Research in Middle School: A Bibliometrics Analysis in Scopus Database (2000–2020)

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (7) ◽  
pp. 353
Author(s):  
Huong Le Thi Thu ◽  
Trung Tran ◽  
Thao Trinh Thi Phuong ◽  
Trinh Le Thi Tuyet ◽  
Hoang Le Huy ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Middle School ◽  
Middle Schools ◽  
Stem Education ◽  
Research Collaboration ◽  
School Science ◽  
Data Set ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Scopus Database ◽  
Scientific Results ◽  
Science Classes

STEM education has become important in many countries around the world. STEM education can begin while students are very young. However, earlier research has shown that one of the most important factors influencing the decision on scientific research selection is the middle school science classes. In this research, we extract database from Scopus to evaluate the scientific results of publications in the field of STEM education in middle school in the period 2000–2020. A data set of 272 academic papers was indexed to monitor the development of this field by Scopus. The results of the quantitative analysis showed that researches on STEM education in middle schools have boomed in the last 5 years, mainly in the USA. The trend of research collaboration in the field of STEM education in middle schools is not strong. The research topics are quite diverse, focusing on a number of issues: gender, engineering education, curriculum, etc. This study has some limitations, including that only data from the Scopus database were selected and manually filtered, so our analyses totally depended on the quality of the input information imported from the Scopus database.

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