STEAM education mainly integrates interdisciplinary knowledge and cultivates students' scientific literacy. The purpose of those interdisciplinary knowledge is to cultivate students' comprehensive practical ability and problem-solving ability, integrate students’ knowledge of science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics, and cultivate students’ practical ability, problem-solving ability, cooperation ability and innovation ability. Those abilities aim to help cultivate student’ comprehensive practical ability of STEAM scientific literacy in the new technology era.
STEAM education is different from the traditional teaching method and it is an important part of education reform. In order to examine whether the student’s learning has achieved "effective learning" and the authenticity of teacher’s implementation of STEAM teaching. It is necessary to formulate a STEAM scientific literacy evaluation standard to examine STEAM scientific literacy of students and this evaluation standard can become a standardized reference tool for teachers to implement it in the STEAM education.
This study begins with an analysis of the cultural background of local science education, the development of local STEAM education communities, and the background of school education, and then the reviews prior studies on the composition and structure of students' STEAM literacy in order to make further contributions. This research mainly used the Delphi method, multiple rounds of consulting expert groups, discusses scientific literacy evaluation standards, and further develops the STEAM education science literacy evaluation standard system. The purpose of establishing this STEAM education scientific literacy evaluation standard system are twofold: one is for evaluating students’ scientific literacy; the other is for designing the courses of STEAM education based on this standard system. In addition, this study also designed a course to implement into the class as classroom experiments and developed a questionnaire to examine students' scientific literacy and their learning outcomes. In addition, Classroom observation was also applied in to this study to support the relationship between scientific literacy and evaluation standard system.
The constructivist learning theory and experiential learning theory were included to discuss and qualitative and quantitative research methods are adopted in this study. First of all, the literature research method is used to formulate the composition of STEAM's interdisciplinary literacy. Secondly, this study used the Delphi method of expert surveys to discuss and collect the index items all levels in the system with 6 education experts in the community industry. After the combination of the actual evaluation standard as the needs of teaching, 16 STEAM teacher experts from different middle schools were invited to assess those criteria of STEAM scientific literacy such as addition or deletion of index items, screening through multiple rounds of consultation and analysis. Finally, the STEAM education scientific literacy evaluation standard system for junior high school students was constructed. Followed by qualitative research methods, this study used empirical research methods through designing STEAM course in STEAM classrooms, and teaching students at Junior grade 2. After teaching this course, the survey was designed and distributed to students. During the class, this researcher also conducted classroom observation. It is essential to examine the relationship between students’ scientific literacy and the STEAM standard system in order to understand if students’ scientific literacy really evaluate students’ scientific literacy.
The research results are that the STEAM evaluation standard can be actually used in the arrangement of course content and can be used as a basis for evaluating students' learning effectiveness after class. This research confirms the validity and credibility of the STEAM evaluation standard, especially helpful for the production of pre-class content and the evaluation of student performance after class. STEAM evaluation standards can become the basis for enriching STEAM education, effectively training students' comprehensive abilities and innovation abilities.
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