The Application of STEM Learning to Improve Students’ STEM Literacy in The Knowledge Aspect

Abstract

STEM literacy is a competency that cannot be seen as knowledge of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics literacy separately. It is a competency consisting of content knowledge and an interdisciplinary skill component. This study aims to analyze students' STEM literacy after implementing STEM learning. The research method was quasi-experimental, and the research design used one group pretest posttest. The subjects of this study were 31 students of class XI IPA at a private high school in Bandung, Indonesia. The instrument in the study was 20 multiple-choice questions. The results showed that scientific literacy increased very satisfactorily (n-gain = 0.71) with an effect size of 1.36, technology-engineering literacy also increased very satisfactorily (n-gain = 0.72) with an effect size of 2.12 and mathematical literacy increased satisfactorily (n-gain = 057) with an effect size of 2.14. The research results show that students' STEM literacy is improved sufficiently and has a strong effect after implementing STEM learning. The study implies that STEM learning requires good collaboration between teachers to share information about students' constraints and solutions in working on project assignments.

Keywords

• stem learning
• literacy