THE STEM LEARNING EXPERIENCE IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION OF PRE-SERVICE TEACHER

Abstract

             This research on the STEM learning experience in early childhood education of preservice teacher focusing on the mixed method research which is aimed to study the status and problems of organizing the STEM learning experience in early childhood education of preservice teachers and to study the ability of pre-service teacher in organizing a STEM learning experience in early childhood education. The sample group used in this research is the 5th year pre-service teacher majoring in early childhood education, who teaching at Kindergarten in the academic year 2018 (N=50) through cluster random sampling. The tools used in the research were questionnaires of the STEM learning experience in early childhood education of pre-service teachers and the questionnaires of the ability in organizing the STEM learning experience in early childhood education of pre-service teachers with values corresponding to the purpose and appropriateness of the content, with the index of congruence (IOC) valued between 0.80-1.00. The data was collected in year 2018 by using SPSS program to analyze the data. The statistics used in this data analysis are mean and standard deviation. The results of the research were as follows:1) The status and problem of STEM learning experience in early childhood education of pre-service teacher were at good level ( = 3.53, S.D.=0.85). 2) The pre-service teachers’ ability to manage and organizing the STEM learning experiences in early childhood education were also at good level ( =3.94, S.D.= 0.68).