Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Journal of Education in Science, Environment and Health (JESEH), cilt.8, sa.1, ss.17-36, 2022 (Hakemli Dergi)
The study aims to investigate the effect of STEM applications designed for the
atomic system and periodic system unit on the scientific creativity of 9th-grade
students. The exploratory sequential design, mixed research, is used in the study.
The pretest-posttest quasi-experimental design has been preferred for the
quantitative part of the study and the phenomenology design for the qualitative
part. The study lasted 12 weeks during the first semester of the 2016-2017
academic year. The sample of the study consists of 133 ninth-grade high school
students. The study uses an experimental and a control group. The Scientific
Creativity Test was used as a data collection tool. Quantitative data were
analyzed using the independent samples t-test through the package program
SPSS 22. On the other hand, the qualitative data were analyzed using content
analysis. As a result of the study, a statistically significant difference was
observed to exist between the groups in terms of scientific creativity in favor of
the experimental group. In addition, the participants were determined to have put
forward many different and extraordinary thoughts with different perspectives.
Based on these results, including activities that will improve students’ scientific
creativity in chemistry lessons is suggested.