RESEARCH ARTICLE Adv. Sci. Lett. 12, 1936–6612, 2016 4225 Copyright © 2015 American Scientific Publishers Advanced Science Letters All rights reserved Vol. 12 Printed in the United States of America A Meta-Analysis on Effective Strategies for Integrated STEM Education Norazla Mustafa 1,2 , Zaleha Ismail 1,2 , Zaidatun Tasir 1,2 , Mohd Nihra Haruzuan Mohamad Said 1,2 1 Department of Sciences, Mathematics and Creative Multimedia, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 81310, Johor Bahru, Malaysia 2 Faculty of Education, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia 81310, Johor Bahru, Malaysia STEM education reform plays a critical role in modern education for the country to keep abreast of being competitive in global economy. For a long time, STEM disciplines have been in silos, rendering the students unable to connect learned knowledge with real life problems. The emergence of integrated STEM education in some institutions suggests that, this approach makes students better problem solvers and logical thinkers. This paper provided an overview of what teaching strategies dominate in the implementation of integrated STEM education. The research methodology was based on a review of relevant literature search strategy through ERIC, online databases and journals such as Science Direct, Wiley Online Library, Taylor & Francis Online, SpringerLink, IEEE Xplore Digital Library, JSTOR and Journal of STEM Education. The keywords used in the search included integration strategies, science and technology, teaching and learning STEM, STEM in primary school, STEM in secondary school and STEM in higher education. The results of this meta-analysis revealed that, a project-based learning approach is the dominant strategy in STEM education implementation as this method improves the students’ skills and their capability to compete with others in the highly knowledge-based society. Findings from this review will lead educators who are new to STEM education to investigate further on how project-based learning could be effectively implemented in their teaching. Keywords: Integration strategies; Science and technology; Teaching and learning STEM; STEM in schools; STEM in higher education Keywords: Theorem Proving, Parallel Algoritm, Extension Rule. 1. INTRODUCTION STEM is an interdisciplinary area which consists of four-discipline namely science, technology, engineering and mathematics 27,28 . National Science Foundation (NSF) had introduced the acronym of STEM, which definitions vary from one source to another. Many scholars agreed for STEM education to identified as separate subjects 5,9 . STEM should be understood as an integrative approach into the educational curriculum that connects four different subjects into one 30,41 . Previous empirical studies showed that the integrated STEM learning has the potential to produce competitive future workforce with the 21 st century skills 1,6 and positive impacts towards students’ interest 17,42,43 ; and achievement 42,43 . However, STEM faced huge challenges to strengthen the effectiveness of its implementation in education 43,35 . * Email Address: norazla182@gmail.com STEM educations develop problem-solving skills, promote student-centered learning, and cultivate higher order thinking skills 11, 21,34,38 . It also refers to ‘‘Research indicates that using an interdisciplinary or integrated curriculum provides opportunities for more relevant, less fragmented, and more stimulating experiences for learners’’ 14 . Therefore, the integrated of STEM education can be defined as incorporating the theory and practices of science and mathematics education into technology and engineering education 36 . Integrated STEM education can be complimented by prevailing teaching and learning approaches such as project-based, problem-based, inquiry-based and theme-based learning 1 . Although, there are a lot of articles on STEM education such as those by 2,11,35,37,44 , there is a limited number of researches focusing on specific strategies of integrated STEM education 7,13,40,45,46,47 . In spite of many efforts put in to strengthen STEM education, there are