THE LECTURERS^ INTEREST IN STEM AFTER ATTENDING THE WORKSHOP STEM DESIGN-BASED LEARNING FOR LECTURERS Khaola Rachma Adzima, S.Pd., M.Si. (a)*, Nilam Novita Sari, M.Stat. (b), Tiara Husnul Khotimah, S.Pd., M.Si. (c)
(a) Mathematics Education, Universitas Negeri Jakarta, Indonesia
(b) Statistics, Universitas Negeri Jakarta, Indonesia
(c) Mathematics Education, Universitas Negeri Jakarta, Indonesia
Abstract
Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) approach has of-ten been applied to the learning method in school but still rarely applied on campus. There are many factors that cause lecturers not to use a STEM ap-proach in their learning, such as the difficulty of the materials, the efforts to apply STEM, and the lecturers^ interest in STEM. The aim of this study is to know whether the lecturers^ interest in STEM were increased after partici-pated in the workshop STEM for two weeks. The sample of this study is 18 lecturers in Mathematics and Natural Sciences Faculty who participated in the Workshop STEM Design-Based Learning for Lecturers. The instrument test was designed based on previous study and developed based on research objectives. The result of validity test using Pearson Product Moment showed that p-value of all items in the instrument were < 0.05 and the re-sult of the Cronbach Alpha test is 0.946 which means that the instrument was valid and reliable. Wilcoxon Signed Ranked Test was used in the hy-pothesis test with p-value = 0.001 < 0.05 which means that H0 is rejected. The result showed that the lecturers^ interest in STEM were increased after they participated in Workshop STEM Design-Based Learning for Lecturers. However, the STEM implementation in learning strongly influenced by the lecturers^ interest in STEM. One of the efforts to increase the lecturers^ in-terest in STEM is by conducted the workshop STEM for lecturers.
