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AuthorAli, Ruba
AuthorBhadra, Jolly
AuthorSiby, Nitha
AuthorAhmad, Zubair
AuthorAl-Thani, Noora Jabor
Available date2023-01-18T04:42:06Z
Publication Date2021-03-02
Publication NameSustainability (Switzerland)
Identifierhttp://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13063483
CitationAli, R.; Bhadra, J.; Siby, N.; Ahmad, Z.; Al-Thani, N.J. A STEM Model to Engage Students in Sustainable Science Education through Sports: A Case Study in Qatar. Sustainability 2021, 13, 3483. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13063483
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URIhttp://hdl.handle.net/10576/38521
AbstractSports has the potential to integrate with different scientific subjects, including materials science and engineering, making it an ideal approach to enhance the students’ affinity toward sustainable education in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Amid gradual educational reformations in the state of Qatar, a distinctive STEM program titled, “Science in Sports” (SIS) was launched to investigate STEM integrated learning in secondary school students. The participant students, 248 students (112 females and 136 males) from 15 different government-operated (public) secondary schools, from rural and urban areas, were given STEM workshops on one of the sports materials, during this pilot study, resultantly challenging them to engineer a sports product. The study employed a mixed-method study in which quantitative approaches were applied to analyze the program effectiveness, with a t-test statistical analysis performed over data collected from a period of five continuous years from 2012 to 2017 in five different cycles. A more dominant data collection included pre and post surveys, substantiating observations of the program facilitator and their schoolteachers were included in this research and development (R&D) study to review the student learning behavior for a qualitative approach. Moreover, the results of the strength, weakness, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) analysis provided an overview of the program’s effectiveness in implicating the engagement of the students in exhibiting their prototypical skills in engineering sports products along with STEM literacy. Apart from understanding the scientific concepts/principles applied in simple sports applications, student attitudes toward STEM fields augmented, as witnessed by the student productivity.
Languageen
PublisherMDPI
SubjectHigh school students
Science implementation
Sports science
STEM
Sustainable science education
Youth empowerment
TitleA STEM model to engage students in sustainable science education through sports: A case study in Qatar
TypeArticle
Issue Number6
Volume Number13
ESSN2071-1050
dc.accessType Open Access


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