Interdisciplinary method for assessing students’ ability based on stem projects

The labor markets of the information age have an urgent demand for engineering and technical workers. STEM educationhas evolved into a metadiscipline, which involves an integrated effort to eliminate the traditional barriers between differentsubjects. Recent studies have reported increased levels of STEM education in international science education at thepreliminary education stage worldwide. However, STEM assessment studies have lacked systematic and comprehensiveassessment standards. Therefore, this study included a series of pretest and posttest evaluation questionnaires. Withmultiple evaluation methods, this study analyzed the effects of the STEM courses. This paper assesses the effect of theSTEM courses on a total of 693 students of a primary school in Beijing. The results can be used to establish a moresystematic and perfect evaluation system for students’ interdisciplinary learning ability. STEM courses have achievedcertain positive effects on emotional attitudes toward STEM, subject cognition, engineering professional cognition andengineering design ability among the three grade students, particularly for middle-school students.