STEAM in Primary Education. Impact on Linguistic and Mathematical Competences in a Disadvantaged Context
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Dúo Terrón, Pablo; Hinojo Lucena, Francisco Javier; Moreno Guerrero, Antonio José; López Núñez, Juan AntonioEditorial
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Materia
Linguistic competence Mathematical competence Primary Education STEAM Education
Date
2022-06-16Referencia bibliográfica
Duo-Terron P... [et al.] (2022) STEAM in Primary Education. Impact on Linguistic and Mathematical Competences in a Disadvantaged Context. Front. Educ. 7:792656. doi: [10.3389/feduc.2022.792656]
Résumé
This research has studied the impact of the use of STEAM (Science, Technology,
Engineering, Art, and Mathematics) in education, specifically in the development of
linguistic and mathematical skills. The instruments used to extract the learning results
were the external evaluation tests carried out by the National Institute of Educational
Evaluation INEE over a period of 4 years. The study included 242 third-level primary
school students from an educational center in the city of Ceuta (Spain) located in a
disadvantaged area. The objectives of the study were to describe the learning results
obtained in the respective competencies according to the sex and the migratory history
of the students’ parents, to compare the results obtained before and during the
use of STEAM and to determine if there is a correlation between the understanding
of writing and problem solving. The research method was quantitative descriptive,
cross-sectional and correlational. The results of the study showed that the transversal
and coordinated use of STEAM improves the learning outcomes of linguistic and
mathematical competence of students of the third year of Primary Education, especially
speaking, oral comprehension and calculation. The results were, in general, more
positive in the case of girls and students whose parents were born in Spain. The study
also revealed that there is a positive correlation between reading comprehension and
problem solving.