Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Milli Egitim, cilt.53, sa.244, ss.1723-1754, 2024 (Scopus)
Online Thematic STEM Practices (OTSP) is an extracurricular study based on thematic STEM practices. The study group of the research consisted of 6 female students studying in the 6th grade of a school in Ankara, who voluntarily participated in OTSP and then withdrew from the study or were dismissed due to lack of attendence. In this study, the reasons for students withdrew from OTSP were investigated. As a research design, “case study” was preferred. A semi-structured interview form was used as a data collection tool. Content analysis was used in the analysis of the data. When the answers given by the students to the questions in the semi-structured interview form were evaluated, it was determined that the reason for their withdrawal is not 1) “they are not interested in STEM fields” and 2) “the difficulties they encountered in distance education”. The fact that students have negative experiences in their previous online education and prefer face-to-face education to online education can be interpreted as the most likely possibility of their withdrawal from OTSP being online.