STEAM EDUCATION APPROACH ON LEARNING ACHIEVEMENT, SCIENTIFIC CREATIVITY AND ATTITUDE TOWARD CHEMISTRY FOR GRADE 10 STUDENTS

Abstract

The purposes of this research were to study science learning achievement, scientific creativity, and attitude toward chemistry after learning with STEAM education approach. The participants were 34 tenth grade students from Piboonbumpen Demonstration School of Burapha University, who studied in the second semester of academic year 2019, selected by cluster random sampling. The research instruments consisted of ; 1) Lesson plans on the topic of covalent bond, 2) Science achievement test, 3) Scientific creativity test, and 4) Attitude towards chemistry questionnaires. The data was analyzed by t-test for dependent sample and t-test for one sample.

The results of this study indicated that:

1. The posttest scores of science learning achievement of the tenth grade students after learning with STEAM education approach were higher than those before learning at the .05 significance level.
2. The posttest scores of science learning achievement of the tenth grade students after learning with STEAM education approach were higher than 70 % set criterion at the .05 significance level.
3. The posttest scores of scientific creativity of the tenth grade students after learning with STEAM education approach were higher than those before learning at the .05 significance level.
4. The attitude towards chemistry of the tenth grade students after learning with STEAM education approach were higher than those before learning at the .05 significance level.