Volume 6, Number 4

Effect of Teaching Approaches in Stem Career Orientation for Students Through Biology Learning in Vietnam

  Authors

Ho Thi Hong Van¹, Le Ngoc Hoan² and Dinh Quang Bao²,¹The Vietnam National Institute of Educational Sciences, Vietnam and ²Hanoi National University of Education, Vietnam

  Abstract

This study investigated the association between teaching approaches in Biology and STEM career aspiration of upper secondary school students and how to apply in learning and teaching. In this research, we analyzed some teaching approaches in Biology which would actively improve students’ subject interest as well as their STEM career aspiration in upper secondary schools in Hanoi and some Northern provinces of Vietnam and supposed suggestions for teachers use in their teaching approaches and teaching methods to promote the effectiveness of science-oriented teaching in their lectures. Analysis of science learning in Vietnam in this study highlighted that teaching the ‘applications of science’ and teaching ‘the relevance of study and career’ were measured teaching approaches to consistently and positively associated with upper secondary school students’ STEM career aspiration, accounting for other teaching approaches. Additionally, in this study, the ‘student-led investigations’ indirectly associated with students’ STEM career aspiration by affecting on affected student’s career awareness and student’s science self-efficacy. However, the project-based approach had no obvious effect on students’ STEM career aspiration.

  Keywords

Biology learning, STEM, Career orientation teaching, Teaching approach