Metal Matters—Towards the Omnipresence of Metal in Education

MRS Advances ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (12) ◽  
pp. 651-655
Author(s):  
Tanja Tajmel ◽  
Ingo Salzmann
Keyword(s):  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Material Research ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Scientific Publications ◽  
Written Responses ◽  
Science Technology ◽  
Raising Awareness ◽  
Mixed Method Design ◽  
And Mathematics ◽  
The Right

ABSTRACTFor many years, comprehensive data demonstrate a persistent lack of interest in the field of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) among students in European and North American countries. This lack of interest is regarded as one reason causing underrepresentation of diversity, especially that of female students within the field of STEM. Obviously, students—although possibly highly talented—refrain from choosing STEM careers only because their attention is not sufficiently attracted to STEM at the right time at the right place. In particular, this fact significantly affects the field of material research and, therefore, identifying opportunities for sparking students’ interest in materials is a crucial challenge in the framework of a modern STEM education. Here, we present the outline of the novel project “Metal Matters”, which aims at establishing an interdisciplinary approach to foster the field of materials in education. In essence, our research focusses on the omnipresence of metal as material. By exploring the K-16 continuum, we aim to identify windows of opportunities for raising awareness of the relevance of materials. Our approach is to stimulate interest in the relevance of materials by explicitly promoting metal as a topic across the curriculum. Our project is deliberately not restricted to STEM, but also covers history, society, economy, health, sports, literature, and language. Here, we present one part of the project contrasting the scientific relevance of metal with the students’ ideas about metal. For the present exploration and data collection, we employed a mixed-method design consisting of linguistic frequency analysis of scientific publications as well as the qualitative analysis of students’ written responses and drawings.

Learners’ Use of Efferent, Aesthetic and Critical Stances When Reading a Novel

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Aryanti Ishak ◽  
Zaidah Zainal
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Mixed Method ◽  
Reading Process ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Story Line ◽  
Written Responses ◽  
Quantitative And Qualitative Research ◽  
Actual Reading ◽  
Mixed Method Design ◽  
The Aesthetic

Recent studies have suggested that literature components benefit students in language acquisition and reading in general, yet reading for enjoyment is arguable since most of the students admit reading is done for examination purposes. Regardless of the reading purpose, adoption of efferent, aesthetic and critical stances is vital and believed to influence the reading process. The main purpose of this study is to investigate the perceived and actual reading stances among learners when they read a novel. A total of 484 students from twelve non-residential secondary schools situated in Kuantan participated in this study. Employing a mixed method design, both quantitative and qualitative research approaches were utilised. The instruments used to collect the data were a set of questionnaire and student’s written responses. Although the findings from the questionnaire and written responses suggested that the learners employed all the three stances namely efferent, aesthetic and critical stances, there was the tendency for the students to adopt more of the efferent stance than the aesthetic and critical stances. Overall, the adoption of the efferent stance indicates that the students tend to closely and narrowly process the novel in terms of the story line narrated by the writer rather than adopting aesthetic and critical stances through interacting with the plot and characters and relating these elements with their experience and viewpoints.

scholarly journals Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) as A Learning Approach to Improve 21st Century Skills: A Review

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (07) ◽  
pp. 95
Author(s):  
Suci Fajrina ◽  
Lufri Lufri ◽  
Yuni Ahda
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Real World ◽  
21St Century Skills ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Learning Approach ◽  
Comprehensive Review ◽  
Science Technology ◽  
Global Companies ◽  
And Mathematics ◽  
The Relationship

<p class="0abstract">Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) is an interdisciplinary approach where academic concept coupled with a lesson or problems that exist in the real world so that students can apply science, technology, engineering, and mathematics in a context that makes the relationship between the school, community, work, and global companies that will emerge the ability to compete in the 21st-century integration of STEM in the classroom Form comprise of three, including integrated content, supporting an integrated content, or integrated context, STEM in its application aims to develop thinking, reasoning, teamwork, investigation, and 21st-century skills that can be used by students in all areas in their life, 21st-century skills to learn and innovate include critical thinking, creativity, communication, and collaboration known as the "Four Cs". This paper provides a comprehensive review of STEM as a learning approach to improve their skills, especially the skills of the 21st century "Four Cs" of the students. Skills "Four Cs" becomes one key to success is to be competitive in entering the era of information and knowledge.</p>

scholarly journals Learning Electricity using Arduino-Android based Game to Improve STEM Literacy

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 77 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alifa Irna Yasin ◽  
Eka Cahya Prima ◽  
Hayat Sholihin
Keyword(s):  
Lesson Plan ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Technology Literacy ◽  
Stem Learning ◽  
Science Technology ◽  
Engineering And Technology ◽  
8Th Grade ◽  
Research Goal ◽  
Stem Literacy ◽  
And Mathematics

The STEM is an interdisciplinary approach provided learning atmosphere where students can use science, technology, engineering and math in daily life. The aim of the STEM is educating the students to be STEM Literate. This research goal was to implement STEM learning on electricity using Arduino-Android Game based experiment to 8th-grade students. STEM Learning was chosen as an approach in this research by the consideration that it was developed through Android Game, YWRobot, and Arduino Uno experiment lesson plan and worksheet. The analysis of this research was focused on the effect of STEM learning implementation through lesson plan and worksheet to 8th-grade students’ STEM Literacy on electricity topic. The method used in this research was pre-experimental with one group pretest-posttest design. The data of this research was obtained from the STEM Literacy objective test (pretest and posttest) based on Allan Zollman. Then the data were analyzed based on each aspect of STEM Literacy such as science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. The result shows that the value of  from students’ STEM Literacy pretest-posttest are -0.06, -0.12, -0.06, -0.87 for science, technology, engineering and mathematics literacy respectively. The result implies that STEM Learning implementation was less optimal to improve science, mathematics, technology and engineering literacy. The reason was because STEM Learning implementation was not implement in continuously. Therefore, science, technology, engineering, and technology literacy regarding electricity topic are emphasized less optimally.

scholarly journals MANIPULATIVE LEARNING MEDIA BASED ON STEM (SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING, AND MATHEMATICS) TO IMPROVE STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES

MaPan ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Eka Sulistyawati ◽  
Diana Puspitasari ◽  
Zulinda Nur Saidah ◽  
Iffatur Rofiqoh
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
Score Test ◽  
Student Learning Outcomes ◽  
Material Research ◽  
Design Development ◽  
School Students ◽  
Effective Learning ◽  
Science Technology ◽  
And Mathematics ◽  
Improve Student Learning

This study aimed to develop manipulative learning media based on STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) called Magic Hours on Clock and Corner material. Research and development model used by using the procedure of Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation (ADDIE). The population of this study was all 4th grade students from elementary school in Kediri. Due to the Covid-19 Pandemic situation and study from home policy, manipulative media was tested on 13 fourth grade elementary school students in Kediri who came from the same village to reduce students' mobility from one place to another. Data collection techniques are collecting through expert validation, teacher questionnaires, student questionnaires, test, observation, and interviews. The instruments are test (description questions) and non-test instruments (material validation sheets, design validation sheets, practicality assessment sheets, questionnaire validation sheet, and questionnaires). The result shows that the learning media are valid, practical, and effective. Learning media have feasible criteria with an assessment score of 88.46% from media experts and 86.67% from material experts. In the practicality test, learning media obtained a percentage of 86.67% with practical criteria. The result of a one-sample t-test on student test scores indicates that the average mathematics score test is significantly more than Minimum Completeness Criteria.

scholarly journals From School to University: An Overview on STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) Gender in Brazil

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Viviane Morcelle ◽  
G. Freitas ◽  
Zélia Maria Da Costa Ludwig
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Science Technology ◽  
Bachelor Degrees ◽  
Minimum Number ◽  
And Mathematics ◽  
The Right

Since centuries ago, women have been seeking gender equity’s guarantee and even with the right to poll, divorce, work and education, it didn’t mean an equality of place in universities. Even though they are majority in Brazilian universities, this doesn't reflect itself in what relates to the permanence and career’s ascension in Exact Sciences field. A minimum number of women graduating in licentiate and bachelor degrees, though when they become researchers few ones achieve a productivity fellowship. Moreover black women’s situation is even more vulnerable. In basics education, a little number of women teaches disciplines related to Physics or Mathematics, making that students don’t fell represented. In this work is brought about a survey on ethnic/gender representativeness in database and together with students from middle/high school. The results of our study demonstrate that affirmative policies are needed to gender and ethnic equity in exact sciences yet. Not only in what refers to representativeness in researches and universities, but also aiming basics education’s schools. Encouraging the deconstruction of stereotypes and that more women, especially the black ones, can ingress on those graduation courses related to this scientific knowledge’s field.

Work Engagement and Research Output Among Female and Male Scientists

2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 55-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lonneke Dubbelt ◽  
Sonja Rispens ◽  
Evangelia Demerouti
Keyword(s):  
Work Engagement ◽  
Research Output ◽  
Research Performance ◽  
Daily Work ◽  
Time Control ◽  
Science Technology ◽  
And Performance ◽  
And Mathematics ◽  
Number Of Publications ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract. Women have a minority position within science, technology, engineering, and mathematics and, consequently, are likely to face more adversities at work. This diary study takes a look at a facilitating factor for women’s research performance within academia: daily work engagement. We examined the moderating effect of gender on the relationship between two behaviors (i.e., daily networking and time control) and daily work engagement, as well as its effect on the relationship between daily work engagement and performance measures (i.e., number of publications). Results suggest that daily networking and time control cultivate men’s work engagement, but daily work engagement is beneficial for the number of publications of women. The findings highlight the importance of work engagement in facilitating the performance of women in minority positions.

Analytical Study of Violence Theme in Victoria Schwab’s This Savage Song

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Analytical Study ◽  
Research Paper ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Vicious Cycle ◽  
Aggressive Approach ◽  
Research Article ◽  
The People ◽  
The Social ◽  
Different Dimensions ◽  
The Right

This research article focuses on the theme of violence and its representation by the characters of the novel “This Savage Song” by Victoria Schwab. How violence is transmitted through genes to next generations and to what extent socio- psycho factors are involved in it, has also been discussed. Similarly, in what manner violent events and deeds by the parents affect the psychology of children and how it inculcates aggressive behaviour in their minds has been studied. What role is played by the parents in grooming the personality of children and ultimately their decisions to choose the right or wrong way has been argued. In the light of the theory of Judith Harris, this research paper highlights all the phenomena involved: How the social hierarchy controls the behaviour. In addition, the aggressive approach of the people in their lives has been analyzed in the light of the study of second theorist Thomas W Blume. As the novel is a unique representation of supernatural characters, the monsters, which are the products of some cruel deeds, this research paper brings out different dimensions of human sufferings with respect to these supernatural beings. Moreover, the researcher also discusses that, in what manner the curse of violence creates an inevitable vicious cycle of cruel monsters that makes the life of the characters turbulent and miserable.

The Right to Dream: Gender, Modernity, and the Problem of Class in Kate O'Brien's Bourgeois Bildungsromane

2019 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 276-289
Author(s):  
Naoise Murphy
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Coming Of Age ◽  
Female Identity ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Class Status ◽  
The Right ◽  
Aristocratic Culture ◽  
Modern Form

Feminist critics have celebrated Kate O'Brien's pioneering approach to gender and sexuality, yet there has been little exploration of her innovations of the coming-of-age narrative. Creating a modern Irish reworking of the Bildungsroman, O'Brien's heroines represent an idealized model of female identity-formation which stands in sharp contrast to the nationalist state's vision of Irish womanhood. Using Franco Moretti's theory of the Bildungsroman, a framing of the genre as a thoroughly ‘modern’ form of the novel, this article applies a critical Marxist lens to O'Brien's output. This reading brings to light the ways in which the limitations of the Bildungsroman work to constrain O'Brien's subversive politics. Their middle-class status remains an integral part of the identity of her heroines, informing the forms of liberation they seek. Fundamentally, O'Brien's idealization of aristocratic culture, elitist exceptionalism and ‘detachment of spirit’ restricts the emancipatory potential of her vision of Irish womanhood.

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