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KATHMANDU, FEBRUARY 28
STEM – an integrated approach to teaching science, technology, engineering, and mathematics – promotes the learning of the 21st century skills and provides developing countries with the tools they need to improve people's lives.
Surveys in developing countries show STEM education needs improvement in a variety of areas. It is not necessary for a STEM subject to be introduced in schools when the levels of science, engineering, technology, and mathematics need improvement.
In fact, many countries do not have a STEM subject in the school curricula. However, there is a need for students and teachers to be exposed to low-cost initiatives that can promote integrated STEM education. Explicit articulation of STEM learning outcomes for each topic in a subject can better ensure the breadth and depth to which a topic needs to be taught and assessed.
There is also a need to ensure that assessment goes beyond recall of facts. Test questions need to be pitched, as far as possible, at a number of levels so that students' learning can be assessed more rigorously.
A version of this article appears in the print on March 1, 2022, of The Himalayan Times.
