IMPLEMENTING STEM PROJECT TO IMPROVE STUDENTS’ CREATIVITY AND LEARNING OUTCOMES IN THE CONCEPT OF CIRCULATORY SYSTEM

Abstract

STEM education is a learning approach that integrates sciences, technology,
engineering and mathematics, and it’s an important tool that successfully
educates students from a variety of national and cultural backgrounds for
improving students’ learning activities and learning outcomes. The aims of
this research are 1) to investigate the effectiveness of STEM project to
improve students’ creativity and 2) to examine the effectiveness of STEM
project to enhance students’ learning outcomes in the concept of circulatory
system. The quantitive research was used for this research, and the data was
analyzed by using SPSS. The participants of this study were students 8th grade
in biology subject in concept of circulatory system. The 36 students were
divided randomly into two group. It was found that student groups’ product
on the average value obtained 77.77% which was categorized as a good
creativity level. Moreover, according to the students’ post-test result on
circulatory system, there was a significant difference between the control
group and the experiment group. Thus, the students of STEM project obtained
learning outcomes higher than Traditional method. In conclusion, the STEM
project has a positive effect to enhance students’ creativity and learning
outcomes.