The Relation of Cognitive Activities and Students Comprehension to Spatial Isomorphism Diagram of Plant Anatomy in Senior High School

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nur Tsalits Fahman Mughni

Studying complex and abstract plant anatomy, the use of isomorphism diagram is one way to help students to understand the concepts. When studying diagram, students surely involve complex cognitive activities. One of The students’ successes in understanding the various concepts contained in the diagram, can be determined by cognitive activities that occur in working memory. This research is a descriptive study which includes 10 senior high school students in Bandung. The research aims to analyze the relation between cognitive activities and students’ comprehension towards spatial isomorphism diagrams of plant anatomy. The students are asked to analyze the spatial isomorphism diagrams of plant anatomical structures. Then, the students will be given questions to measure the level of comprehension after learning spatial isomorphism diagrams. The result shows that there are five kinds of cognitive activities when students study spatial isomorphism diagram. Those are activating prior knowledge, identifying images, comparing images, interpreting symbols, and drawing conclusion. Hence, there are several students who have low abilities, they only have two kinds of cognitive activities. This is in accordance with the level of students’ understanding of plant anatomy in the medium to low categories. The result shows that the type of cognitive activities that students have contributes the students’ conprehension of plant anatomy.

Author(s):  
Isabella Gloria Hariadi ◽  
Debora Chaterin Simanjuntak

Asynchronous e-learning is receiving growing attention because it encompasses learner-oriented approach which emphasizes on the development of learners' knowledge and skills. Henceforth it is imperative to explore students’ experience on asynchronous e-learning. This study aims to delineate the experience of senior high school students in learning English through asynchronous e-learning. This is a qualitative descriptive study in nature and the data collected were analysed using thematic analysis by incorporating interpretive description approach. The participants of study were senior high school students from Lemahwungkuk sub-district, Cirebon, Indonesia. The results revealed that in undergoing asynchronous e-learning, the participants have to implement self-access learning and additionally they have to adapt with technology setting which may appear to be challenging due to limited technical support they have; moreover they still have to discover the knowledge by themselves inasmuch as they experience limited interaction with their English teachers throughout the process of learning.


2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 27-34
Author(s):  
Destri Sambara Sitorus

Good financial literacy is very important for everyone to have because it will help manage finances and create prosperity. This study aims to determine the level of financial literacy of Satya Wacana Christian High School students. The aspect of financial literacy studied is knowledge of personal finances, savings and savings, and investment. This research is a descriptive study and data were collected using a questionnaire. The population in this study were all Satya Wacana Christian High School students. The research sample of 90 students was carried out by using random sampling technique. The results showed that the level of financial literacy of Satya Wacana Christian Senior High School students was 54.29% in the low category.


Author(s):  
Anggi Yulihar And Nora Ronita Dewi

The study deals with the developing interactive media for senior high school students. The objective of this study is to find out how to develop interactive media for better speaking skill of senior high school students. The research was conducted by using Research and Development (R&D). The subject of this research was 2016/2017 students of the eleventh grade of Class XI IPA4 in SMAN 1 Batang Kuis. The number of the students was 30 students. The data of this study was collected by using need analysis questionnaire and experts’ judgment. Need analysis questionnaire was calculated by using percentage to get the information of students’ need before developing interactive media. Experts’ judgment was calculated by using likert data, mean and criteria interval of expert judgment to know the validity of interactive media which has been developed. After the data analyzed, it was found that the experts’ judgment result was 4.80 which had a very good criteria interval. The result of the research find that interactive media is a very good to be used in teaching speaking skill.


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