Teachers’ Perception of Using STEM Video for Teaching and Learning

Abstract

Malaysia students’ reluctance to choose Science-related stream for their secondary education starting the year 2015 to 2016 has affected the national education agenda. In Pelan Pembangunan Pendidikan Malaysia 2013-2025, the need for enhancing STEM is clearly underscored by many STEM initiatives being in the pipeline. Among the initiatives is the collaboration project between a public university, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia and Ministry of Education called STEM Video project which highlights the importance of STEM concept and relation to real-life application to ensure better critical thinking and concept knowledge acquisition. However, investigation on how teachers would react to the introduction of new technologies in classroom is very crucial. Hence, selected teachers from STEM background were invited to develop these videos and a survey was administered to identify 800 teachers’ perception of using these videos for teaching and learning. Findings from the survey were analyzed and the study found that teachers in Malaysia believed that using STEM Video for teaching and learning would be beneficial and acceptable. However, their level of readiness were low and they reported their concerned over the limiting factors that could inhibit the success of STEM video implementation such as infrastructure and time constraint.