The Effects of Socioscientific Issues with Thinking Wheel Map Approach on Curiosity towards STEM of Year Five Students

Autor/inn/en	Siew, Nyet Moi; Ahmad, Jamilah
Titel	The Effects of Socioscientific Issues with Thinking Wheel Map Approach on Curiosity towards STEM of Year Five Students
Quelle	In: Problems of Education in the 21st Century, 81 (2023) 1, S.130-143 (14 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Siew, Nyet Moi) ORCID (Ahmad, Jamilah)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1822-7864
Schlagwörter	Science and Society; Science Education; Thinking Skills; Personality Traits; STEM Education; Grade 5; Elementary School Students; Foreign Countries; Cognitive Mapping; Malaysia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Naturwissenschaftliche Bildung; Denkfähigkeit; Individual characteristics; Personality characteristic; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; STEM; School year 05; 5. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 05; Ausland
Abstract	This research was conducted to examine the effects of the socioscientific issue with the thinking wheel map (SI-TWM) approach on the curiosity towards STEM, the construct of Exploration and Acceptance. A teaching and learning (TL) module was developed to guide teachers in implementing the SI-TWM approach to enhance curiosity among year five students. Quasi-experimental quantitative research was conducted on 345 year five students (aged 11 years old) in urban primary schools in Tawau, Sabah, Malaysia. A total of three groups were assigned randomly, namely (i) socioscientific issue with thinking wheel map approach (SI-TWM, n=115), (ii) socioscientific issue approach (SI, n=115), and (iii) conventional approach (CONV, n=115). The curiosity towards STEM questionnaire was developed to measure the level of curiosity towards STEM. Data analysis was performed using MANCOVA, ANCOVA, and effect size. The results of the MANCOVA analysis showed that there was a significant effect across the three TL approaches for curiosity towards STEM. Meanwhile, the ANCOVA analysis results showed a significant effect of the SI-TWM approach compared to the SI and CONV approaches on curiosity towards STEM, the construct of Exploration and Acceptance. The results of this research prove that the SI-TWM approach positively impacts the cultivation of students' curiosity towards STEM. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01