The Effects Of Integrating Stem Education Through Stem Module: Towards A Skilled Workforce And Consistent Learning Society

Science Technology Engineering Mathematics (STEM) especially in TVET circles
appears to be critical to transform the typical teacher-centred classroom by
encouraging a curriculum that is driven by problem-solving, discovery, exploratory
learning, and requires students to actively engage a situation to find its solution.
Hence, this research aims to investigate the effect of integrating STEM education
through STEM module (Inspirational Module, Reactivity of Metals, Adruino, Gas
Around Us, Ninja. The sample who was from School A involved in the experimental
group consisted of 20 form 3 subjects (mentees) and 20 subjects (mentors) for Control
group. The research instruments used are questionnaire and has high reliability of
.67, .78 and .68. The mean, standard deviation, and t-test were used to analyse the
pretest and post-test data. Interview and observation were also used to analyse the
treatment effectiveness. The results of the study were the comparison of soft skills
before and after undertaking the STEM module treatment was different at significant
0.05. (1) Overall soft skills were higher (post-test data) than before the STEM
treatment module. 2) The mean of interest in Science subject, Mathematics subject
and perception towards STEM of experimental group increased, The comparison of
interest in Science subject, interest in Mathematics subject and perception towards
STEM before and after undertaking STEM module was different at significant 0.05.
Keywords: STEM Education, STEM Module, perception, Skilled worker