The purposes of this study were to analyze the current domestic research trend of the STS Education and to evaluate the application effects of STS teaching model by using Meta-Analysis. The subject of study were 180 articles including 104 pieces of th...
The purposes of this study were to analyze the current domestic research trend of the STS Education and to evaluate the application effects of STS teaching model by using Meta-Analysis. The subject of study were 180 articles including 104 pieces of the master's theses and 78 pieces of science education journal articles published from 1991 to 2006. For the evaluation of the effects of STS teaching model, 56 articles were selected and the number of effect size was 104.
The result showed that STS teaching had more positive effects than the traditional teaching on enhancing student's attitude for science, academic achievement in science, inquiry ability, attitude for environment and knowledge for environment. Especially, it was more effective when STS teaching had applied for fewer students. It had shown the most positive effects on improvement in the attitude for environment. Therefore, it might be better to reflect these results for the best effect of STS class. To assess STS education on the whole, it is necessary to synthesize the effects of STS teaching model and the results of the study on teachers' and students' understanding of the interrelation of science, technology and society.