scholarly journals KONSEPSI CALON GURU BIOLOGI TENTANG IPA, BELAJAR, DAN MENGAJAR (CONCEPTION OF BIOLOGY STUDENT TEACHERS’ ABOUT SCIENCE, LEARNING, AND TEACHING)

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 27
Author(s):  
Nuryani Y Rustaman ◽  
Ari Widodo
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Transfer ◽  
Student Teachers ◽  
Science Teaching ◽  
Science Learning ◽  
Learning Strategy ◽  
Biology Education ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Biology Students ◽  
Biology Student ◽  
Teaching Learning

A study for one semester in Teaching learning strategy course was carried out to get the profile of biology student teachers conception about science, learning, and science teaching, as we know that constructivist paradigm in education is not just studied as a theory, but needs to be implemented in real teaching learning processes. A number of Biology education students (n =29) were involved as subjects. Their free essay were used as source and were organized through coding and then recoding using specific program (NUD.IST). It was found that there are five categories for their conception about science (i.e. study about nature, collection of knowledge or concepts, research method, the single truth, to worship their Creator); five categories their conception about learning (i.e. changing process, knowledge improvement, conceptual change, thinking process, interaction with environment); and three catagories for their conception about  science teaching (i.e. as fasilitating, knowledge transfer, interaction between teacher and students). Most of biology students have more than one conception (two or three), but none of them has a complete conception about science, learning and science teaching.  Biology student teachers conception about teaching (mostly as knowledge transfer) is paralel with their conception about science (mostly as study about nature) and about learning (mostly as knowledge improvement).  These findings give implication to their supervisor to pay attention more seriously on the students conception abot science, learning, and teaching. Because the way they teach will be influenced by their conception about those things. One suggestion to handle is by giving the student teachers to express their opinion about those things so that they are aware to other conceptions and in turn they will be aware to accept (and apply) conception based on constructivist reference or paradigm.Keywords:  conception, student teacher, science, learning, teaching.  

A Study on the Effectiveness of a Strategy Based on Cooperative Learning for Science Teaching in Class VII

2021 ◽  
pp. 123-136
Author(s):  
Mary Vineetha Thomas ◽  
R.G Kothari
Keyword(s):  
Cooperative Learning ◽  
Science Teaching ◽  
Education System ◽  
Learning Strategy ◽  
Technological Development ◽  
Teaching Strategy ◽  
The Social ◽  
Working Together ◽  
Education Today ◽  
Teaching Learning

Education today needs to be responsive to the diverse needs of our learners in order to make them globally competent. Innovative initiatives need to be brought into the present education system in order to meet the growing demands of our society. Our education system does not function in isolation with our society and so, along with academic aspects, the social aspects of learning too, have to be focussed on. This is possible with quality teaching strategies being introduced in our teaching learning process and one such strategy promoting the same is Cooperative Learning. Cooperative learning involves students working together in small groups to accomplish shared goals. It is widely recognized as a teaching strategy that promotes socialization and learning among students from kindergarten through college and across different subjects and science is no exception. Science enables pupils to be involved in group work where they have the opportunity to share ideas and cooperate with each other in collaborative practical activity. What is needed today is a new wave of educated students ready for modern scientific research, teaching and technological development. With students of diverse abilities and differing rates of learning in our classrooms, it is, therefore, essential for the teacher to have the knowledge of how students learn science and how best to teach. The present study was taken up in this context to find out the effectiveness of cooperative learning strategy in science teaching.

scholarly journals RQA integrated with ADI: Empowering biology students’ ability in posing higher-order thinking skills questions

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Astuti Muh Amin ◽  
Duran Corebima Aloysius ◽  
Siti Zubaidah ◽  
Susriyati Mahanal
Keyword(s):  
Learning Strategies ◽  
Learning Strategy ◽  
Biology Education ◽  
Higher Order Thinking ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Higher Order ◽  
Education Students ◽  
Higher Order Thinking Skills ◽  
Biology Students ◽  
South Sulawesi

Questions serve as an element that can be used to access and stimulate students’ thinking ability. This research aimed at analyzing the students’ ability to pose Higher-Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) questions during the learning process. This research was a survey research using a descriptive quantitative approach. The samples used in the research were biology education students of UIN Alauddin Makassar and Universitas Muslim Maros, South Sulawesi with the total of 92 students. The instrument used in this research was an observation sheet of questioning skills for the biology pre-service teachers. The results of this research showed that the implementations of RQA, ADI, and RQA integrated with ADI learning strategies were dominated with HOTS questions, while the learning using the conventional learning strategy was dominated with the Lower-Order Thinking Skills (LOTS) questions. The percentages of the HOTS questions in the learning using RQA, ADI, RQA integrated with ADI, and the conventional learning strategy were 60.53%, 55.71%, 64.91%, and 19.35% respectively.  This finding indicates that the RQA integrated with ADI strategy contributes the significant impact in stimulating students’ ability in posing HOTS questions in the classroom.

scholarly journals Affordances of visual representations and sense-making of science

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maurice Cheng
Keyword(s):  
Science Teaching ◽  
Nature Of Science ◽  
Scientific Literacy ◽  
Science Learning ◽  
Visual Representations ◽  
Sense Making ◽  
Visual Thinking ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Research Studies

Visual thinking is essential in the development of science. Visual representations are also indispensable when scientists disseminate their findings. This paper discusses the ways that research studies on visual representations can inform science learning and teaching. I start by discussing the ways that drawings, charts and graphics represent their referents, and hence highlighting the affordances of these visual representations. Then I discuss how these affordances make visual representations a valuable tool to support science teaching in formal and informal contexts and, in particular, how learning with media graphics can support the learning of Nature of Science for scientific literacy.

scholarly journals Obstacles of Biology Student Teachers during the Course of Biology Learning Strategies and Its Solution

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 44
Author(s):  
BOWO SUGIHARTO ◽  
ALOYSIUS DURAN COREBIMA ◽  
HERAWATI SUSILO ◽  
IBROHIM IBROHIM
Keyword(s):  
Student Teachers ◽  
Learning Strategies ◽  
Teacher Candidates ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Learning Strategy ◽  
Analysis Model ◽  
Data Presentation ◽  
Biology Student ◽  
Biology Learning ◽  
The Way

<p class="5abstrak">Biology Learning Strategy (BLS) is an important course that constitutes the competence of biology student teachers, especially pedagogy competence. This study aims to describe the learning strategy of the biology teacher candidates, problems they encountered, and the chosen learning solution in BLS course. This explorative survey was conducted in March-April 2016. The study involved 176 participants. The participants were students of 4<sup>th</sup> semester biology student teachers who took BLS course. The data were collected by using a semi-open and open questionnaire. The analysis of the data was qualitative data analysis model of Miles and Huberman which includes data reduction, data presentation, and drawing conclusions and verification. The study concludes that the percentage of the way the students learned BLS by understanding is 53.4%, memorizing and understanding is 36.9%, memorizing only is 5.7%, and the other is 7%. Problems experienced by the students in learning BLS include discomfort during a rowdy class, lack of ability to understand, lack of confidence to perform, lack of ability to choose a strategy or apply the materials in the practice, as well as the difficulty to memorize. The way to overcome the problems in learning BLS is quite various and it can be classified into four categories namely changing learning strategies, increasing the intensity of learning, improving motivation, and increasing the frequency of exercise.</p>

scholarly journals Keefektifan metode eksperimen terhadap keterampilan proses dan hasil belajar IPA siswa kelas VIII SMP

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anik Purwanti
Keyword(s):  
Science Teaching ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Science Learning ◽  
T Test ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Process Skills ◽  
Learning Achievement ◽  
Experiment Method ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Teaching Learning

AbstrakPenelitian ini bertujuan untuk (1) mengetahui keefektifan pembelajaran IPA menggunakan metode eksperimen ditinjau dari keterampilan proses dan hasil belajar IPA, dan (2) mengetahui perbedaan keefektifan antara pembelajaran IPA menggunakan metode eksperimen dengan demonstrasi ditinjau dari keterampilan proses dan hasil belajar IPA. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian eksperimen semu. Populasinya adalah siswa kelas VIII SMP Diponegoro Depok Sleman pada tahun ajaran 2013/2014. Sampelnya adalah satu kelompok eksperimen yang proses pembelajarannya menggunakan metode eksperimen dan satu kelompok kontrol yang proses pembelajarannya menggunakan metode demonstrasi. Pengumpulan data dilakukan dengan pretest dan posttest untuk hasil belajar sedangkan untuk keterampilan proses diambil dari data kemampuan awal dan kemampuan akhir yang merupakan hasil observasi pada LKS. Untuk mengetahui efektif tidaknya metode eksperimen dilakukan uji one sample t-test. Kemudian untuk mengetahui perbedaan keefektifan metode eksperimen dan demonstrasi dilakukan uji multivariat dengan uji T2 Hotelling dan dilanjutkan analisis univariat dengan uji independent sample t test. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa (1) pembelajaran IPA menggunakan metode eksperimen efektif ditinjau dari keterampilan proses dan hasil belajar IPA, dan (2) pembelajaran IPA menggunakan metode eksperimen lebih efektif dalam meningkatkan keterampilan proses dan hasil belajar IPA dibandingkan dengan metode demonstrasi.Kata kunci: Keefektifan, metode eksperimen, keterampilan proses, hasil belajar IPA. THE EFFECTIVENESS OF EXPERIMENT METHOD ON PROCESS SKILLS AND THE SCIENCE LEARNING ACHIEVEMENT OF GRADE VIII STUDENTS IN SMPAbstractThis study aimed to (1) find out the effectiveness of science teaching-learning using experiment method on the process skills and science learning achievement, and (2) find out the difference of effectiveness between science teaching-learning using experiment method with demonstration method on process skills and science learning achievement. This research was a quasi experiment research. The population of the research was all of students of SMP Diponegoro Depok Sleman grade VIII in the academic year of 2013/2014. The sample consisted of the experiment group that the teaching-learning process used experiment method and the control group that the teaching-learning process used demonstration method. A pretest and posttest were used to collect the data of the learning achievement, while the process skill was taken from the prior ability and the final ability which were the result of observation on the LKS (Students Worksheet). To obtain the effectiveness of the experiment method on each variable, the data were analyzed with one sample t-test. Then, to find the difference between the effectiveness of the experiment and demonstration method on all variables used multivariate technique with T2 Hotelling and followed by univariate analysis with independent sample t test. The results of the research showed that (1) the teaching-learning process of science using the experiment method was effective in terms of process skills and science learning achievement of the students, and (2) the teaching-learning process of science using experiment method was more effective in improving the process skills and science learning achievement than that using the demonstration method. Keywords: Effectiveness, experiment method, science process skills, science learning achievement

scholarly journals Broadening Participation in Biology Education Research: Engaging Community College Students and Faculty

2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. mr1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey N. Schinske ◽  
Virginia L. Balke ◽  
M. Gita Bangera ◽  
Kevin M. Bonney ◽  
Sara E. Brownell ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Education Research ◽  
Community Colleges ◽  
Student Success ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Biology Education ◽  
Student Diversity ◽  
Building Capacity ◽  
Biology Students ◽  
Funding Agencies ◽  
Teaching Learning

Nearly half of all undergraduates are enrolled at community colleges (CCs), including the majority of U.S. students who represent groups underserved in the sciences. Yet only a small minority of studies published in discipline-based education research journals address CC biology students, faculty, courses, or authors. This marked underrepresentation of CC biology education research (BER) limits the availability of evidence that could be used to increase CC student success in biology programs. To address this issue, a diverse group of stakeholders convened at the Building Capacity for Biology Education Research at Community Colleges meeting to discuss how to increase the prevalence of CC BER and foster participation of CC faculty as BER collaborators and authors. The group identified characteristics of CCs that make them excellent environments for studying biology teaching and learning, including student diversity and institutional cultures that prioritize teaching, learning, and assessment. The group also identified constraints likely to impede BER at CCs: limited time, resources, support, and incentives, as well as misalignment between doing research and CC faculty identities as teachers. The meeting culminated with proposing strategies for faculty, administrators, journal editors, scientific societies, and funding agencies to better support CC BER.

Enhancing Biology Students' Academic Achievement and Attitude Through Self-Regulated Learning Strategy in Senior Secondary Schools in Delta Central Senatorial District

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 149-156
Author(s):  
Oyovwi Edarho Oghenevwede
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Schools ◽  
Learning Strategy ◽  
Attitude Score ◽  
Biology Teachers ◽  
Biology Students ◽  
Self Regulated Learning ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Regulated Learning ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Senior Secondary

Abstract This study focused on enhancing biology students' achievement and attitude through Self-Regulated Learning Strategy in secondary schools in Delta Central Senatorial District. The study adopted the quasi-experimental pre-test, post-test control group design. Four research questions and four research hypotheses were formulated and raised to guide the study. The population of the study was all the biology students in senior secondary school II (SS II) in all the government-owned public secondary schools in Delta Central Senatorial District with an estimation of six thousand, four hundred and twenty-one students (6,421). A sample of two hundred and forty-five (245) senior secondary schools II students randomly selected from four (4) public mixed secondary schools was used for the study. The Simple Random Sampling Technique was adopted to draw the sample. The instruments used for data collection were the Biology Achievement Test (BAT) and Biology Attitude Questionnaire (BAQ). BAT and BAQ were validated by I Measurement and Evaluation and Biology teachers that have taught biology for more than ten (10) years. The reliability of BAT and BAQ were established using Kuder-Richardson formula 21 and Cronbach Alpha which yielded a coefficient of internal consistencies of 0.75 for BAT and 0.80 for BAQ respectively. Data were collected by administering the biology achievement test (BAT) and biology attitude questionnaire (BAQ) as pre-test and post-test. The data obtained were analysed using mean, standard deviation Analysis of Variation (ANOVA) and Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA). The result shows that self-regulated regulated learning strategy significantly enhanced students' achievement in biology compared to the lecture method; there was no significant difference between the mean achievement score of male and female students taught biology using self-regulated learning strategy; there was a significant difference between the mean attitude score of students taught using self-regulated learning strategy compared with those taught with lecture method in favour of students taught using the self-regulated learning strategy and there was no significant difference between the mean attitude score of male and female students taught biology using self-regulated learning strategy. Based on the findings it was concluded that self-regulated learning strategy significantly enhances students' achievements and attitudes in biology. It was therefore recommended that biology teachers should adopt the strategy in teaching biology at the secondary school level and that biology teachers should be trained on how to use the skills of self-regulated learning strategy effectively.

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