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http://dx.doi.org/10.14697/jkase.2017.37.4.719

The Impact of Engineering Design Based STEM Research Experience on Gifted Students' Creative Engineering Problem Solving Propensity and Attitudes Toward Engineering  

Kang, Ju-Won (Pusan National University)
Nam, Younkyeong (Pusan National University)
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Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education / v.37, no.4, 2017 , pp. 719-730 More about this Journal
Abstract
The purpose of this study is to investigate how engineering design-based STEM research experience affects gifted students' creative engineering problem-solving propensity and attitude toward engineering. The students' creative engineering problem-solving propensity and attitude toward engineering were measured before and after the STEM research experience. The pre-/post-tests results were analyzed by paired t-test with the significance level of p <.05. The conclusions of the study are as follows: First, the engineering design based STEM research experience had a positive effect on the students' creative engineering problem-solving propensity. Over all, the average score of the creative engineering problem-solving propensity increased significantly (p <.05) after the STEM research experience. Second, the average score of gifted-students' attitude toward engineering had increased significantly after the integrated STEM research activities (p <.05). In addition, we analyzed the difference between pre-post results of both instruments based on the gifted students' desired career paths (natural science and engineering) and gender. The result shows that the students' career paths or gender did not affect the results in most of the sub-categories in both instruments. However, the STEM research experience had more positive effect on the female students than male students in term of their 'engineering design ability', which is one of the sub-categories of the creative engineering problem-solving propensity instrument.
Keywords
STEM research experience; engineering design; creative engineering problem solving propensity; attitudes toward engineering;
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