STEM education could be reckoned as a noble thing in the Indonesian Educational System in the last few years. This paper is a preliminary attempt to investigate the students’ attitude and interest in STEM regarding the gender perspective of Senior High School’s student in Malang, Indonesia. To explore the attitude and interest in the gender stereotypes, this quantitative method study has been conducted. 357 students participated in the survey which comprised 126 males and 231 females. The survey contended 40 items of belief’s indicators in the STEM field such as science, technology, engineering, mathematics and the STEM. Besides, at the end of the survey’s section, there are some options for future study programs and career to be selected by the learner. Unexpectedly, the finding of this project revealed that male has a more positive belief in the most of STEM field, such as technology, engineering, mathematics, and STEM, rather than female. In comparison, the female has a more positive belief than male in the science only. The marked investigation of emerging from the data comparison was both of male and female have a higher interest in the social field and medicine. However, the additional interest of male and female was significantly different. In males, we found that they have more interest in engineering, while females have an interest in biology. This study also disclosed that the factors, namely family support, family financial, friends, teachers, and hobby, determined both attitude and interest in STEM among students in Malang.
The provision of the whale shark (Rhincodon typus) protection status imposed us to formulate an effective interception Standard Operational Procedure (SOP) for the visitor as an effort to manage sustainable fisheries resources. The research was conducted using visual underwater survey (VUS) method and direct observation. The SOP formulation was effectively applied in Kwatisore (Papua) and Probolinggo (East Java) beach. However, the SOP was made differently due to the differences in the behavior of whale sharks and also the differences in the water conditions in both places. The groups of whale sharks in Kwatisore frequently interacted with humans. Besides, Kwatisore has also a clear beach that allows the visitor for diving and snorkeling while the Probolinggo beach has turbid water. As a result of those differences, the content of the SOP also was made distinctively. The SOP in Kwatisore summarized the procedure of touching prohibitions, using flash, making noise and safe distance for swimming with the whale shark, whereas the SOP in Probolinggo was made to control the number and speed of boats also the distance between the boat and the whale sharks while the visitor observes them.
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