Abstract
Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) provides a noteworthy conceptual lens for many countries when it comes to labor recruitment. For many countries, providing opportunities for gifted students at school and quality STEM education should be included. A limited number of qualitative study has focused in-depth on the skills and perceptions of gifted students in STEM education. Therefore, this article aims to explore gifted students' perceptions and skills by applying STEM education. The study was conducted with 17 middle school gifted students. It includes data collection, a series of interviews, student diaries focusing on the STEM experiences of gifted children, and a self-assessment form that allows students to evaluate themselves in activities. As a result, it was concluded that STEM education practices are important in discovering the perceptions and skills of gifted students, and that students improve their scientific inquiry, argumentation, technological inquiry, and creative thinking skills, and enable career choice to them. In addition, it seems that STEM activities need more work with gifted students.
Highlights
The rapid changes in the new world have brought the need for a quality STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) education model content that will prepare students for future conditions in the education of gifted students, which has a significant impact on the development of societies (Dailey, 2017; Jolly, 2009) since gifted students need differentiated and enriched learning environment contents (Lee, Baek, & Lee, 2013)
It was concluded that STEM education practices are important in discovering the perceptions and skills of gifted students, and that students improve their scientific inquiry, argumentation, technological inquiry, and creative thinking skills, and enable career choice to them
Research questions can be shown as follows: (1) What are the perceptions of gifted middle school students towards the activities prepared according to the STEM education model? (2) What are the skills of gifted middle school students revealed in the activities prepared according to the STEM education model?
Summary
The rapid changes in the new world have brought the need for a quality STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) education model content that will prepare students for future conditions in the education of gifted students, which has a significant impact on the development of societies (Dailey, 2017; Jolly, 2009) since gifted students need differentiated and enriched learning environment contents (Lee, Baek, & Lee, 2013). At the same time, gifted students have above-average science knowledge, creativity (Han and Shim, 2019), and high interest, talent (Lee, Matthews, Boo & Kim, 2020), and motivation (Jang, Chung, Choi, & Kim, 2013) to keep their interest in these areas alive, and it is important to provide opportunities. Students can reveal their interests and abilities with these educational contents. This study examines the effectiveness of the STEM education model in the application of the secondary school curriculum in terms of gifted students
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