TY - GEN
T1 - The design of a STEM-oriented project-based course for the higher grades of elementary schools
AU - Lin, Yi wen
AU - Wang, Tzone I.
N1 - Funding Information:
This study is supported by the National Science Council (now Ministry Of Science and Technology) of Taiwan under the project contract No.: MOST 104-2511-S-006-009.
Publisher Copyright:
© Springer International Publishing AG 2017.
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - This study designs a STEM-oriented project-based learning course with hand-on projects for the higher grades of elementary schools to develop their interest in explorative learning by laying the foundations of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM). Students are grouped for the course projects to promote their collaborating capability. To investigate the feasibility of such course, this research uses a combination of qualitative research and quantitative research methods to conduct a triangulation on STEM scholastic achievements, teacher’s survey, and participant observations. The results indicate, for the higher grades students of elementary schools, the STEM-oriented project-based course has positive and significant improvements on students’ STEM scholastic achievements. By participant observations, experts find that students are willing to take the hands-on approach of learning by doing, which makes them find solutions to problems by themselves or with the help of group members. The teacher’s survey also shows positive results. This research also observes a performance improvement on students’ creativity, collaboration, and communication (3C) capability, but the overall improvement does not reach a significant level.
AB - This study designs a STEM-oriented project-based learning course with hand-on projects for the higher grades of elementary schools to develop their interest in explorative learning by laying the foundations of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM). Students are grouped for the course projects to promote their collaborating capability. To investigate the feasibility of such course, this research uses a combination of qualitative research and quantitative research methods to conduct a triangulation on STEM scholastic achievements, teacher’s survey, and participant observations. The results indicate, for the higher grades students of elementary schools, the STEM-oriented project-based course has positive and significant improvements on students’ STEM scholastic achievements. By participant observations, experts find that students are willing to take the hands-on approach of learning by doing, which makes them find solutions to problems by themselves or with the help of group members. The teacher’s survey also shows positive results. This research also observes a performance improvement on students’ creativity, collaboration, and communication (3C) capability, but the overall improvement does not reach a significant level.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-71084-6_15
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-71084-6_15
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85041441865
SN - 9783319710839
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 137
EP - 143
BT - Emerging Technologies for Education - 2nd International Symposium, SETE 2017, Held in Conjunction with ICWL 2017, Revised Selected Papers
A2 - Huang, Tien-Chi
A2 - Lau, Rynson
A2 - Huang, Yueh-Min
A2 - Spaniol, Marc
A2 - Yuen, Chun-Hung
PB - Springer Verlag
T2 - 2nd International Symposium on Emerging Technologies for Education, SETE 2017, held in Conjunction with the 16th International Conference on Web-based learning, ICWL 2017
Y2 - 20 September 2017 through 22 September 2017
ER -