@article {414, title = {BITARA-STEMTM TRAINING OF TRAINERS{\textquoteright} PROGRAMME: IMPACT ON TRAINERS{\textquoteright} KNOWLEDGE, BELIEFS, ATTITUDES AND EFFICACY TOWARDS INTEGRATED STEM TEACHING}, journal = {Journal of Baltic Science Education}, volume = {14}, year = {2015}, month = {February/2015}, pages = {Continuous}, type = {Original article}, chapter = {85-95}, abstract = {The Bitara-STEMTM Training of Trainer Programme is a short-term professional development programme aimed to increase STEM teachers or facilitators{\textquoteright} abilities to teach integrated STEM education and to increase their efficacy, beliefs and attitudes of integrated STEM teaching. The programme involves 35 facilitators, representing a broad spectrum of STEM fields. Pre- and post-test results of the participants{\textquoteright} beliefs, attitudes, perceived efficacy and content knowledge in the context of integrated STEM teaching revealed significant changes. The findings also revealed (i) knowledge of integrated STEM teaching to be related to facilitators{\textquoteright} efficacy for teaching integrated STEM and (ii) facilitators{\textquoteright} attitudes to be related to beliefs of integrated STEM teaching. The outcomes of this study provide evidence that a relatively short-term professional development can have a significant impact on facilitators{\textquoteright} beliefs, attitudes, efficacy and knowledge of integrated STEM teaching and STEM concepts.}, keywords = {integrated STEM teaching, STEM education, STEM facilitators, STEM graduates}, issn = {1648-3898}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.33225/jbse/15.14.85}, url = {http://oaji.net/articles/2016/987-1462908253.pdf}, author = {Edy Hafizan Mohd Shahali and Lilia Halim and Sattar Rasul and Kamisah Osman and Zanaton Ikhsan and Faszly Rahim} }