STEM AWARENESS LEVELS OF SCIENCE TEACHERS

This study aimed to determine the STEM awareness levels of science teachers in terms of different variables. To do so, the survey model was used in the present study, carried out with 321 science teachers who work in different schools in Turkey."STEM Awareness Scale (SAS)", developed by ？evik (2017), was employed as the data collection tool, and the data were analyzed using IBM SPSS-21 statistical program. For the data analysis, independent t-test, variance analysis (ANOVA), and Tukey test were used. The results of this study demonstrate that there is significant difference in science teachers’ STEM awareness levels for gender, duration of professional experience, exposure to in-service course/seminar, and education level variables; however, there is no significant difference in science teachers’ STEM awareness levels as regards the number of students in the classroom and the type of schools