Fostering secondary school students’ attitudes toward sustainable development and their individual entrepreneurship orientations through a STEM + activity
Year: 2025
Type: article
Study design: Clinical Trial
Abstract: Today, problems such as climate change, drought, food crises, and pandemics have once again brought the effective use of natural resources back on the agenda. With STEM + based activities, an interdisciplinary learning approach, students are expected to design a product that will solve a problem from daily life and add value to it. Based on these thoughts, this study aims to present a STEM + entrepreneurship activity for secondary school students to design cologne using lavender oil, a natural product. Also, the study aims to determine the impacts of the activity on students’ attitudes toward sustainable development and individual entrepreneurship orientations. In this direction, a single-group pre–test–post–test study was conducted with the attendance of 20 tenth-grade secondary school students. Data was collected with the Individual Entrepreneurship Orientation Scale and Attitudes toward Sustainable Development Scale . The activity was developed according to the engineering design process steps, and a worksheet was used in the implementation, which lasted for four course hours. According to the results, a significant differentiation was determined both in the attitudes toward sustainable development and individual entrepreneurship orientations of the students in favour of post-tests. It is recommended to broaden the context of the activity in future studies.
Source: Discover Education
Authors: Handan Ürek, Nilay Korkmaz, Gamze Dolu
Institutions: Balıkesir University, Bandırma Onyedi Eylül University
Language: English
Topic: STEM Education
Subfield: Education
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $1,390
OpenAlex ID: W4413213341