Teachers` STEM club activities implementation levels

Authors : Seyide Eroglu, Hasan Gökçe, Melek Karaca, Oktay Bektas

Pages : 141-161

Doi:10.70325/eyyad.1529931

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Publication Date : 2024-12-25

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :The aim of this research is to determine the level of implementation of STEM club activities by teachers in schools in terms of teacher, student, planning and implementation dimensions, taking into account gender and seniority variables. The study uses the cross-sectional survey model design and explanatory correlation model. The study has chosen the purposive sampling design. The sample of the research consists of 139 teachers and carried out STEM club activities in the 2019-2020 academic year. The STEM Club Evaluation Scale was used as the data collection tool. As a result of descriptive statistical analyses, the independent samples t-test, correlation and regression analyses, each dimension in the scale was found to statistically significantly predict the level at which teachers implement STEM club activities. In this context, the dimensions of teachers and students explain a high level of the variance in teachers’ STEM club activities implementation level, while the dimension of planning and implementation explains this at a moderate level. The study has concluded teachers’ STEM club activities implementation level to not differ according to gender in terms of the dimensions of teachers and of planning and implementation, while this level does differ in favor of females in terms of the dimension of students. At the end of the study, suggestions were made that other studies on STEM clubs could be enriched by taking into account different dimensions such as teachers, students, planning and implementation, and that studies examining variables such as gender and professional seniority not only as independent variables but also as moderating and mediating variables could be added to the literature.
Keywords : STEM eğitimi, sosyal kulüp çalışmaları, nitel araştırma