The technological knowledge and the content knowledge on acid-base concepts of senior high school STEM students

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to assess the levels of Technological Knowledge and Content Knowledge on Acid-Base Concepts and relationship between the Technological Knowledge and Content Knowledge on Acid-Base Concepts among the Senior High School STEM students in Iligan City. The study utilized two (2) Public High Schools in Iligan City schools division that offer STEM Strand. The respondents are the Senior High School STEM students that are taking up a Chemistry subject in the School Year 2018-2019. Questionnaires for Technological Knowledge and Content Knowledge on Acid-Base concepts were used. The collected data were analyzed using mean, frequency distribution, percentage, p-test, t-test, pearson correlation and levene’s test. The level of Technological Knowledge of Grade 11 STEM students in Iligan City National High School is very good. The level of Technological Knowledge of Grade 12 STEM students is also very good. The level of Technological Knowledge of Senior High School STEM students in Iligan City National High School is very good. The level of Content Knowledge on Acid- Base Concepts of Grade 11 students in Iligan City National High School is satisfactory. On the other hand, the result shows that the level of Content Knowledge on Acid- Base Concepts of Grade 12 STEM students one the same school is poor. Moreover, the level of Content Knowledge on Acid- Base Concepts of Senior High School STEM students in Iligan City National High School is poor. The level of Content Knowledge on Acid- Base Concepts of Senior High School STEM students in Iligan City East National High School is poor. The result shows that the difference and relationship of the technological knowledge and the content knowledge of Senior High School STEM students in Iligan City is not significant. Since the level of Technological Knowledge of the students were very good, teachers may make use the available technologies in teaching Acid- Base Concepts. Future researchers may utilize a larger population like different Schools Division in this region to validate this findings.