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The Effectiveness of STEM-Based on Gender Differences: The Impact of Physics Concept Understanding

2019; RU Publications; Volume: 8; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.12973/eu-jer.8.3.753

2165-8714

Rumadani Sagala, Rofiqul Umam, Andi Thahır, Antomi Saregar, Indah Wardani,

STEM Education

<p style="text-align:justify">The purpose of this research is to describe the effectiveness of STEM on the physics concepts understanding seen from gender differences. The research method used is a type of quasi-experimental design with 2x2 factorial design and saturated sampling technique. The data collecting technique used a tested method to see the results of students’ concept understanding. Hypothesis testing was done using two-way ANOVA 2 x 2 factorial designs. The results of the study are: (1) there are differences in STEM and conventional learning on concepts understanding and the use of STEM learning is more effective than the conventional one; (2) there are differences in the results of understanding the concept between male and female students where male students are higher than female students; and, (3) there is no interaction between learning and gender towards concepts understanding. The research recommends designing the STEM-integrated ESciT learning to be relevant with the indicator measurements and to manage the learning effectively to obtain optimum learning outcome.</p>