A Study on the Status of STEM Education Research in Turkiye
Articles > Article · 2020
Authors: Pınar ÇAVAŞ, Aslıhan AYAR, Selin Bula Turuplu, Gizem Gürcan
Van Yüzüncü Yıl Üniversitesi Eğitim Fakültesi Dergisi, International Refereed University Journal, International, TR DİZİN (ULAKBİM), 2020, vol 17, pp 823-854
Summary
<p>Science and technology have been changed very rapidly in the 21st century. This change in science and technology has made it necessary for people to gain different skills. These skills can be listed as creativity, critical thinking, problem solving and effective usage of technology, information management, cooperation and communication. Some teaching models are needed to enable students to acquire and develop these skills. STEM is an acronym for the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering and Math; and includes effective integration of them STEM education, which aims to enable students to transfer the theoretical knowledge that they learn in school to daily life, to handle different disciplines as a whole and to gain skills along with knowledge, has started to become popular recently. In this study, it is aimed to examine the articles and graduate theses in national literature about STEM education since 2010. Within the scope of this aim of the study, 45 master and doctoral theses and 52 journal articles which are reached from the national academic data base (ULAKBIM) and Higher Education Institution National Thesis Centre (YÖK) were selected for analysis. The studies were analyzed in terms of publication year, the language of publication, research methods, dependent variables, data collection tools, sampling groups, data analysis methods and represented with tables. With the findings of this research, it is expected to give an overview of the studies on STEM education in our country and to shed light on the new studies. </p>