Exploring stem career Interest among primary school students: the role of environmental factors, self-efficacy, and career perception
Authors
Ajeng Vina Septiani
Institut Prima Bangsa
Ajeng Maulidina Rahayu
Institut Prima Bangsa
Fiqi Malkhan
Institut Prima Bangsa
Sri Defa Maolani
UIN Syekh Nurjati Cirebon
Abstract
Education in STEM you know, Science, Tech, Engineering, and Math is super important nowadays for prepping kids to handle all these crazy tech upgrades and future job demands. Honestly, getting kids into STEM needs to start way back in elementary school, cause that's usually what shapes what they want to study later on and what careers they actually pick.So, this study basically wanted to look at how a kid's environment affects how confident they feel about STEM, what they think about STEM jobs, and if they're even interested in doing that kind of work later. To figure this out, we went with a quantitative approach and used PLS-SEM (Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling). We gathered all the data using some ques tionnaires we made to measure things like environment vibes, STEM confidence, career views, and actual career interest. Turns out, the results showed that a kid's environment has a really big, positive, and significant impact on how confident they feel in STEM fields (β = 0.684; p).