Elementary teachers’ readiness to implement STEM programs


Theano Papagiannopoulou
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0394-7390
Julie Vaiopoulou
Dimitrios Stamovlasis
Abstract

The interdisciplinary STEM approach has as its primary goal students' ability to solve real-world problems. In the present study, the attitude and readiness of Primary Education teachers to implement it were investigated and a validated questionnaire was used to collect data from 348 educators. From the analysis of the effects of individual differences on the dimensions under investigation, a statistically significant relationship was observed between the educational background, age, years of teaching experience as well as the educational branch in terms of teachers' readiness, while emotional readiness and self-efficacy can predict their attitude.

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