Validation of the Student Attitudes Toward STEM (S-STEM) Survey: Conditions Under a Middle School Robotics Learning Environment

• In Event: 16.046 - Supporting the Learning of Educational Robotics and Computational Thinking in Primary, Middle, and Preservice Education

Abstract

With the explosive growth of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) programs in the United States, we are in need of valid and reliable measurement systems to document the outcomes of these programs. The Student Attitudes Toward Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (S-STEM) is one such measurement that has been proposed in the literature. The scale attempts to measure attitudes towards science, mathematics, technology and engineering, and 21st century skills. The purpose of this research is to examine the internal and external validity evidence of the S-STEM measure under the context of an educational robotics program. This research provides external evidence of the scale by correlating the four factors with other known technology, problem-solving and attitudes towards compute programming measures.

Authors

• Wenjing Luo, University of Florida

• Hsin-Ro Wei, University of Florida

• Anne Corinne Huggins-Manley, University of Florida

• Albert Dieter Ritzhaupt, University of Florida

• Christina Gardner-McCune, University of Florida