SEAQIS Journal of Science Education
Vol. 1 No. 1 (2021): SEAQIS Journal of Science Education

Perception and Motivation of Female and Male Students Toward STEM in Indonesia

Septian Karyana (Unknown)
Elly Herliani (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
09 Jul 2021

Abstract

The aim of this research is to find out the differences of male and female lower secondary school students on the aspects of perception, motivation, and interest in the field of STEM. The sample of this study consists of 370 middle school students in various province in Indonesia who had experience in STEM learning with teacher who had participated SEAQIS STEM training. The instrument used in this study was five scales Likert of SEAQIS STEMs Survey (SS-STEMs), which cover perception and motivation toward Science, Technology and Engineering as well as Mathematics. The instrument was validated by Rasch Model approach using Winstep v 3.7 and was found that it compatible with the model. Winstep software v3.73 was also used for data analysis. It was found that: (1) There is a significant difference between male and female students in the aspects of perception toward mathematics subjects; (2) There is no significance difference between male and female students in the aspects of motivation towards all subjects.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

sej

Publisher

Subject

Chemistry Education Environmental Science Physics

Description

SEAQIS Journal of Science Education is a scientific publication issued by SEAMEO Regional Centre for QITEP in Science. It is published twice a year, June and December. It publishes articles in the area of science education, including research articles and review articles. This journal is the ...