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Elementary School Female Students' Attitude towards STEM

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  • Rehman, Ayesha
  • Butt, Intzar Hussain

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STEM has unraveled itself as an integrated teaching learning approach that fosters ingenuity and creativity, instill innovation, inculcate critical thinking, teach problem solving and encourages experimentation. Despite of modern advances, female representation in STEM workforce is low as compared to males. Studies show that girls lose their interest and intent to major in STEM fields during their middle school. The purpose of this study was to develop female student’s attitude towards STEM at elementary level. True experimental design of quantitative approach was employed to conduct the study. The population was consisted of all the girls students of govt. school at elementary level. The sample was comprised of 8th grade female students of a public sector school in Lahore. To collect data a questionnaire developed by Friday Institute for Educational Innovation (2012) was adapted. The study was concluded on the basis of the findings that there was a significant effect of STEM integrated teaching on the female student’s attitude of experimental group as compared to the results of control group. It is recommended by the researcher that similar kind of study should be conduct using mixed method approach to validate the results of the study.

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  • Rehman, Ayesha & Butt, Intzar Hussain, 2020. "Elementary School Female Students' Attitude towards STEM," Journal of Business and Social Review in Emerging Economies, CSRC Publishing, Center for Sustainability Research and Consultancy Pakistan, vol. 6(2), pages 511-515, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:src:jbsree:v:6:y:2020:i:2:p:511-515
    DOI: http://doi.org/10.26710/jbsee.v6i2.1161
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