Teacher Candidates’ Stem Awareness Levels

Year 2017, Volume: 4 Issue: 1, 272 - 279, 01.06.2016

Büşra Buyruk Özgen Korkmaz

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 (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

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