The Development of Personal Character Through STEM Integration in Learning of Elementary School
- DOI
- 10.2991/icet-19.2019.104How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- integrated learning model, character, elementary school
- Abstract
The current phenomena in the field indicate that most of students have not possess the 21st century skills namely the ability to creative thinking, autonomous, and hard work. The students tend to keen on the instant culture, especially in searching information. This study aims to develop the personal character by taking the interdisciplinary approaches among Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematic (STEM) in course’ content-based. This study utilized the research and development design method with ADDIE Model comprising of five stages, namely Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation. This research is conducted in four regions in West Sumatra province, two areas that represent counties (Agam, Pasaman Barat), and the two regions represent cities (Padang and Padang Panjang). The four regions are chosen because the area has the number of character education programs largely in local schools. The sampling has been selected purposively and involving 78 elementary school students. The findings describe that there was a significant distinction between the student’ personal character taught using STEM Approach and conventional methods.
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- © 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Abna Abna Hidayati AU - Abna Hidayati AU - Alwen Bentri AU - Fetri Yeni PY - 2019/12 DA - 2019/12 TI - The Development of Personal Character Through STEM Integration in Learning of Elementary School BT - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Education and Technology (ICET 2019) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 414 EP - 418 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/icet-19.2019.104 DO - 10.2991/icet-19.2019.104 ID - AbnaHidayati2019/12 ER -