STEM Learning: the Way to Construct Undergraduate Students’ Oral Communications Skills in Science Learning

Communication skills are one of the skills that a person must have when entering the world of work. The workforce in a company that lacks mastering 21st century skills will be at a disadvantage to compete globally, and will have difficulty in dealing with challenges that arise along with the with the development of science and technology. So, in higher education such as university, the curriculum, course, and learning should provide the activities that could improve and construct students’ communications skills. STEM is one of the learning approaches that could help to construct students’ communication skills. Research objective is to investigate how is the development of oral science communications skills of undergraduate students in Environmental learning by using STEM learning approaches. The method of this research is qualitative research by the data taken from observation and teaching learning video recording transcriptions. The transcription is coded by the assessment of science communication rubrics adapted from Baltimore University for oral science communication. The data are taken from students’ presentation activities in environmental courses. This research result shows that responsiveness indicators is 88,3%, multimedia supported as technology skills is 83,3%, and conclusions indicators is 50,0%. It could be concluded that STEM learning approaches could be constructed students’ oral communications skills. Responsiveness and multimedia support of oral communications skills indicators are outperformed than conclusion as the least performed of oral communications skills.