An Analysis of University Students’ Conceptual Understanding and Retention on Science Basic Concepts
Understanding on concept and retention is one of the achievement indicators in learning. This research attempts to describe the profile of concept and students’ retention understanding of Primary Teacher Education of PGRI University of Semarang in the year of 2014/2015. The method of this research was a survey using essay test instrument of concept understanding and retention. Cluster random sampling method was used to take sample from 231 students in class 1A, 1C, 1E, 1F, and 1H. The overall result of the concept understanding value was dominated in high category at 57.6%. The highest indicator of concept understanding was in memorizing indicator (C1) at 83.6% and the lowest one was in the creating indicator (C6) at 50.3%. The overall retention mark was dominated in poor category at 50.3%. The conclusion was the high concept understanding was not followed with high students’ memory.