Teacher Candidates’ Stem Awareness Levels

Authors : Büşra BUYRUK, Özgen KORKMAZ

Pages : 272-279

View : 18 | Download : 13

Publication Date : 2016-06-01

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :The purposes of this research are determining STEM awareness level of teacher candidates and detecting being affected situations of this awareness by different variables. This is a descriptive field research and it was conducted with scanning model. This research`s study group consists of 254 insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(170 female and 84 male); education faculty students that are at 3rd and 4th grades of Computer, Math and Science Teaching Departments of Amasya University at 2015-2016 education year. As a data collecting tool, `STEM awareness scale` -which was designed by Buyruk and Korkmaz- was used. Within data analyzing; mean, Anova, Schieffe and T-Tests were utilized. As a result of analysis, it was seen that teacher candidates have high level of STEM awareness and gender has no effect on this awareness level. Researchers who would like to study the same issue can practice with different departments and wider study groups. Besides, they can analyze situations of awareness in terms of different variables.
Keywords : STEM, teacher candidates, awareness