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STEM teaching intention and computational thinking skills of pre-service teachers

Authors: Mustafa Serkan Günbatar, Hasan Bakırcı

Published in: Education and Information Technologies | Issue 2/2019

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The aim of the study is to examine the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) teaching intention of science and primary school pre-service teachers in terms of Computational Thinking (CT) skill, gender, grade level, daily computer usage, internet usage, smartphone usage, and the department variables. The study employs the correlational survey model. The participants of this research are 440 pre-service teachers at Van Yüzüncü Yıl University, Turkey. The STEM teaching intention scale, and the CT skill scale were used for data collection. Chi-Squared Automatic Interaction Detector (CHAID) analysis, independent samples t- test, and single factor variance analysis (ANOVA) was used for data analysis. According to the results; CT has the most significant effect in terms of STEM teaching intentions. Department is also another important variable for STEM teaching intentions. STEM teaching intention measures do not differ according to gender, grade level, daily average computer usage, internet usage and smart phone usage.

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Title: STEM teaching intention and computational thinking skills of pre-service teachers
Authors: Mustafa Serkan Günbatar
Hasan Bakırcı
Publication date: 14-12-2018
Publisher: Springer US
Published in: Education and Information Technologies / Issue 2/2019
Print ISSN: 1360-2357
Electronic ISSN: 1573-7608
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10639-018-9849-5

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