THE EFFECTS OF STEAM EDUCATION APPROACH ON SCIENTIFIC CREATIVE THINKING AND TEAMWORK SKILLS OF 9TH GRADE STUDENTS
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https://doi.org/10.55003/JIE.24105Keywords:
Steam Education, Scientific creative thinking, Teamwork skillsAbstract
This research investigated and made the comparison of students’ scientific creativity and studied the teamwork skills of 9th grade students after learning science through STEAM Education approach. The findings aim to serve as a guideline for designing STEAM Education approach to enhance creativity and teamwork skills in other subjects. The research participants were 82 students of 9th grade in the 2nd semester of the 2023 academic year at the Demonstration School of Ramkhamhaeng University selected by cluster random sampling method.
This research was a quasi-experimental research conducting one group pre-test post-test design experiment.
The research instruments were (1) STEAM education lesson plan (2) scientific creativity test (The pretest had a difficulty ranging from 0.44 to 0.66, item discrimination ranging from 0.33 to 0.66, and reliability of 0.83. The posttest had a difficulty ranging from 0.39 to 0.68, item discrimination ranging from 0.35 to 0.57, and reliability of 0.81) (3) Peer Evaluation Form for Teamwork Skills (4) Self-Evaluation Form for Teamwork Skills. The collected data were analyzed by mean, percentage, standard deviation, and dependent t-test. The research findings were summarized as follows: (1) The post-learning scientific creative thinking ability of the students who learned under STEAM Education learning management was significantly higher than its pre-learning counterpart at the .05 level of statistical significance. (2) The teamwork skills before, during and after of the students who learned under STEAM Education learning management was significantly difference at the .05 level of statistical significance.
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