Meenakshi Gautham, Sanghita Bhattacharyya, Suroshree Maity, Mayura Biswas Roy, Priya Balasubramaniam, Ayako Ebata, Gerald Bloom
"Just as curry is needed to eat rice, antibiotics are needed to cure fever"-a qualitative study of individual, community and health system-level influences on community antibiotic practices in rural West Bengal, India
BMJ open
australias economic need innovation led science technology engineering mathematics stem education becoming essential investment future study utilised mixedmethods approach involving prevalidated quantitative questionnaire together qualitative semistructured focus groups students across four year 5 classrooms students provided perceptions stem learning environment interactions teacher identify factors influencing engagement pursuing disciplines questionnaire comprised scales three different instruments classroom emotional climate test science related attitudes questionnaire teacher interaction several key factors identified student responses including student freedom peer collaboration problem solving communication time preferred environments 33 possible 40 correlations scales statistically significant eta2 values considered low 012037 overall students expressed positive perceptions stem learning environment student freedom peer collaboration problem solving communication time appearing impact perceptions stem education three focus groups total 12 students identified suggestions improving stem learning environments implications research include importance considering student perceptions measuring quality stem learning environments well facets environments impact student attitudes towards stem