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The Effect Of STEM Integration On Primary School Students’ Scientific Literacy
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AUTHOR(S)
Fransiska Astri Kusumastuti, Olifia Rombot, Freddy Widya Ariesta
KEYWORDS
STEM Education, Scientific literacy, Elementary Students.
ABSTRACT
This study aims to determine the effect of integrating STEM education on elementary school science learning activities to student's scientific literacy. The study was conducted for 3 weeks at an elementary school in West Jakarta. 40 students that involved in the study were divided into 2 classes. Each class consists of 20 children, and each of them labeled as control class and experiment class. The instrument was a 10 item test that developed from scientific literacy indicators PISA 2015. Data processing was carried out in two ways, first statistically test used to see the significance of difference in scientific literacy achievement from both class control and experiment. Wilcoxon test on both class normalized gain showed significance of 0.004 which is smaller than the normal level α = 0.005 which means that the hypothesis was accepted, where the integration on STEM education could significantly improve students' scientific literacy. In addition, a qualitative analysis also conducted to get deeper understanding of students' improvement. The result shows that students who studied with the integration of STEM education have improved the quality of answering questions and provide a better explanation than the students who study with common project-based study.
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