scholarly journals Conceptual Understanding and Interest in Kinematics among Senior High School Students of MSU-Saguiaran in a Cooperative Learning Environment

2019 ◽  
pp. 65-75
Author(s):  
Monariza Bacaro
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Cooperative Learning ◽  
Learning Environment ◽  
Conceptual Understanding ◽  
Traditional Method ◽  
Science Curriculum ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Learning Approach ◽  
School Students

This study was conducted to determine the level of conceptual understanding and interest in Kinematics of 66 non-science curriculum high school students under a cooperative learning environment randomly assigned to the control (Traditional Method of Teaching) and experimental group (Cooperative Learning Approach). Student’s level of conceptual understanding was measured using a SOLO level-based Conceptual Understanding Test (CUT) and interest in kinematics was measured using a Student’s Interest in Kinematics Questionnaire. Before intervention, findings revealed that almost all of them could not answer questions that require one piece or more than one piece of given information, fact, or idea, obtained directly from the problem or ideas each used separately. They could not also answer two or more distinct steps, with no integration of the ideas or in doing algorithms with numbers using a set of useful information. Majority of them were on the prestructural and same level of conceptual understanding and has not really understand the concept asked, or with very little understanding, but they differ on interest level in learning kinematics in favour to the students assigned in the control group. After intervention, students exposed to Cooperative Learning Approach have significantly higher Pretest-Posttest mean gain score in the CUT than the students exposed to Traditional Learning Method. Almost half of the respondents were on the unistructural and less than one fourth were on the multistructural SOLO levels of conceptual understanding. However, students exposed to traditional method of teaching have interest that is significantly higher than the students exposed to cooperative learning approach. In terms of students performance students exposed to cooperative learning approach performed significantly higher than the students exposed to traditional teaching methods.

scholarly journals CONCEPTUAL UNDERSTANDING OF SOLUBILITY CONCEPTS AMONG FIRST-GRADE HIGH-SCHOOL STUDENTS

2017 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marina Stojanovska
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Conceptual Understanding ◽  
Conceptual Knowledge ◽  
First Grade ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Multiple Choice Questions ◽  
School Students ◽  
Experimental Group ◽  
Insight Into

A study was conducted to inspect conceptual understanding of solubility concepts among first-grade students and to identify the potentially present misconceptions. A total of 122 high-school students (15–16 years old) were involved in the study and a solubility concept test was administered in order to get insight into their conceptual knowledge. Students were divided into two groups: control group and an experimental one. Only the experimental group was subjected to a conceptual change intervention program.Descriptive statistics and significance testing were used to analyse and summarize data. Independent-samples t-test was used to test the differences in the scores between the control group and the experimental one and between male and female students involved in the study. For multiple-choice questions, four areas of conceptual understanding have been set: satisfactory conceptual understanding, roughly adequate performance, inadequate performance and quite inadequate performance. Furthermore, the findings revealed six misconceptions present in students’ minds.

scholarly journals METODE PEMBELAJARAN KOPERATIF UNTUK KESIAPAN BELAJAR MATEMATIKA SISWA MTS

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 10-19
Author(s):  
Nurrul Khotimah ◽  
Adi Adi Heryadi
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Cooperative Learning ◽  
Junior High School ◽  
Junior High ◽  
Mathematics Learning ◽  
Control Group ◽  
School Students ◽  
Learning Readiness ◽  
And Control

This study aimed to prove cooperative learning in improving mathematics learning readiness of Islamic junior high school (MTs) students. This research was an experimental study with 50 partisipants that devided randomly in two groups, experiment and control. The design of the experiment was a pretest-posttest control group. The experiment was engeged in cooperative learning in mathematics subject and the control group only learned mathematic subject in traditional methods. The instrument was students' readiness questionaire with reliability coefficient of 0.913. The results showed that cooperative learning methods improved the mathematics learning readiness of Islamic Junior High School students. Mathematics learning readiness is important to improved before the students learn mathematics in class.

scholarly journals Pengaruh Model Brain Based Learning Terhadap Pemahaman Konsep dan Kemampuan Berpikir Kritis Fisika SMA

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 53
Author(s):  
Ni Putu Devi Maretha Widyantari ◽  
Syahrial Ayub ◽  
Jannatin 'Ardhuha
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Conceptual Understanding ◽  
Control Group ◽  
School Students ◽  
Critical Thinking Ability ◽  
Thinking Ability ◽  
Physics Concepts ◽  
Brain Based Learning

This research aims to determine (1) the influence of brain based learning (BBL) models on the understanding of physics concepts among high school students, (2) the influence of BBL models on physics critical thinking ability among high school students, and (3) the influence of BBL models on conceptual understanding and the critical thinking ability among high school students. This research is a quasi-experiment and uses non-equivalent control group design with pre-test and post-test design. The population were all students of class X MIPA of SMAN 1 Gerung in the academic year of 2018/2019. Samples were taken using purposive sampling technique. The experimental class is treated using the BBL model while the control class uses the expository learning model. The hypothesis used are the polled variance t-test and Manova test. Based on the results of the analysis, it can be concluded that (1) there are influences of BBL models on the understanding of physics concepts among high school students (2) there are influences of the BBL modesl on physics critical thinking ability among high school educators, and (3) there are influences of BBL  models on conceptual understanding and critical thinking ability in physics among high school student.

scholarly journals IMPROVING HIGH-SCHOOL STUDENTS’ CONCEPTUAL UNDERSTANDING AND FUNCTIONALIZATION OF KNOWLEDGE ABOUT DIGESTION THROUGH THE APPLICATION OF THE INTERDISCIPLINARY TEACHING APPROACH

2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 123-139
Author(s):  
Katarina B. Putica ◽  
Dragica D. Trivić
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Conceptual Understanding ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Deep Understanding ◽  
Teaching Approach ◽  
Control Group ◽  
School Students ◽  
Interdisciplinary Teaching ◽  
Significant Difference

Adolescents are considered as a nutritionally vulnerable subgroup because of their alimentary behaviours. Considering that alimentary habits are strongly influenced by knowledge about digestion, an experiment was conducted with aim to determine whether conceptual understanding and functionalization of this knowledge can be improved by the interdisciplinary teaching approach. The experiment encompassed 258 students attending the fourth year of high school. No statistically significant difference in the level of the previously acquired chemistry, biology and physics knowledge concerning digestion between the two groups was determined on the pre-test. Conversely, the students in the experimental group significantly outperformed those in the control group on the post-test that required a deep understanding and the application of knowledge about digestion in solving real-life problems. Therefore, it was concluded that high- school teachers can be advised to apply the interdisciplinary teaching approach in order to improve their students' knowledge about this process. Key words: conceptual understanding, process of digestion, functionalization of acquired knowledge, interdisciplinary teaching approach.

scholarly journals COOPERATIVE LEARNING ON EFL PROFICIENCY; THE BEST PRACTICE AT ISLAMIC HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 276
Author(s):  
Andriyono Andriyono
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Cooperative Learning ◽  
English Proficiency ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Motivation To Learn ◽  
School Students ◽  
Control Group Design ◽  
Students Attitudes ◽  
New System

The study was aimed at finding out the effectiveness of cooperative language learning on students' English proficiency as measured by their abilities in grammar, reading comprehension, vocabulary, and listening comprehension. The study also sought to measure students’ attitudes towards cooperative learning and motivation to learn English. This study was a comparative research design in the form of a non-equivalent control group design. The experiment lasted for twelve weeks in which two intact groups from two Class of MAN 2 Lombok Tengah were chosen as the study groups. Subjects of this study consist of 44 students who attended classes. The control group includes 53 students. This study tested the effectiveness to examine the method; two quantitative tools for data collection were used to compile the findings of the study. For starters, a pre- and post-test were administered to measure English proficiency before and after the treatment. Afterward, a questionnaire was set to measure students’ attitudes towards cooperative learning and motivation to study English in a new high school system. After analyzing the data, the results indicated that cooperative learning in the new system positively affect some aspects of the participants’ English proficiency and they had a positive attitude towards cooperative learning in the new system and a higher motivation to learn English.

scholarly journals Effectiveness of Mobile Learning: moPhyDict to Improve High School Students’ Physics Conceptual Understanding

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 115
Author(s):  
Betti Ses Eka Polonia ◽  
Lia Yuliati
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Mobile Learning ◽  
Conceptual Understanding ◽  
Average Score ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Learning Resources ◽  
School Students ◽  
Control Group Design ◽  
Creative Learning

In learning physics, the problem that arises is a lack of physics conceptual understanding in contextual learning. These problems are due to the absence of innovative and creative learning resources that can be used to learn by the students. One of the learning resources that can be used is a dictionary. moPhyDict (mobile physics dictionary) is a dictionary containing explanations of concepts and illustrations (images, videos, animations) in a language that is easily understood by students. This study specifically aims to test the effectiveness of Mobile Learning: moPhyDict to improve student’s physics conceptual understanding. The method employed in this study was a quasi-experiment design. The experimental design used a pretest-posttest control group design. The sample of the study was 60 students from senior High School, which divided into control group and experiment group. The instrument test in this study used conceptual multiple choice question. Based on the t-test on the control class and the experimental class, it can be inferred that there is a significance score of 0.031. These results are supported by data: (1) the average score of the ability to understand the concept of the control class who did not use moPhyDict increased from 37.4 to 55.46, and (2) the average score of the conceptual understanding of the experimental class who used moPhyDict increased from 40.87 to 74.33. It was concluded that moPhyDict is effective to improve physics conceptual understanding of High School Students.

scholarly journals Factors Associated with Non-Attendance at Dental Preventive Care in Slovak High School Students

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 1295
Author(s):  
Martin Samohyl ◽  
Jana Babjakova ◽  
Diana Vondrova ◽  
Jana Jurkovicova ◽  
Juraj Stofko ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Young Adults ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Preventive Care ◽  
Parental Influence ◽  
Adolescents And Young Adults ◽  
Control Group ◽  
School Students ◽  
Factors Associated ◽  
Older Adolescents

This study aimed to determine the factors associated with the avoidance of dental preventive care in high school students and their parents in the framework of The Youth and Parents Risk Factor Behavior Survey in Slovakia, the ongoing cross-sectional school-based survey of students and their parents or legal representatives. The data were collected using two separate standardized questionnaires: (i) the questionnaire for students (n = 515) and (ii) the questionnaire for parents (n = 681). The study group included 57 high school students (54.4% males) who did not visit the dentist for preventive care in the previous year. The control group included 458 students (35.8% males) who visited a dentist for preventive care at least once in the previous year. A significantly higher number of males (54.4%), older adolescents, and young adults (21.8%; 20.0%) were not visiting dental preventive care regularly. Incomplete family (56.1%), stressful situations at home (17.5%), and feeling unwell were the factors contributing to the avoidance of dental preventive care. More than 34.5% of adolescents and young adults were not visiting either dental preventive care or pediatric preventive care (adjusted odds ratio (AOR) = 5.14; 95% confidence interval (CI) = 2.40, 10.99). Children of divorced mothers and mothers with household income lower than EUR 900 had significantly higher dental care avoidance in bivariate analysis. A significantly higher percentage of fathers from the exposed group were not visiting dental preventive care regularly (47.8%, p < 0.05). The results of the study can be used as an educational intervention step focusing on the parental influence on adolescent and young adults’ behavior and as a challenge for the improvement of dental preventive care in older adolescents and young adults.

scholarly journals Physical Computing Strategy to Support Students’ Coding Literacy: An Educational Experiment with Arduino Boards

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 1830
Author(s):  
Chih-Chao Chung ◽  
Shi-Jer Lou
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Program Design ◽  
Analysis Of Covariance ◽  
Control Group ◽  
School Students ◽  
Physical Computing ◽  
Technical High School ◽  
Experimental Group

The purpose of this study is to explore the influence of introduction of the physical computing strategy of Arduino Boards in a program design course on coding literacy and the effectiveness of the application in technical high school students. This study selected two classes of twelfth-grade students enrolled in a program design course at a technical high school in Southern Taiwan as the samples. One class was the control group (43 students), and the other was the experimental group (42 students). During the 18-week course, the control group carried out a DBL (design-based learning) programming project, and the experimental group carried out the DBL programming project using the physical computing strategy of Arduino boards. Pre- and posttests and a questionnaire survey were carried out, while ANCOVA (analysis of covariance) was used for evaluation purposes. In the course, students in the experimental group were randomly selected for semi-structured interviews to understand their learning status and to perform qualitative analysis and summarization. This study proposed the physical computing strategy of Arduino boards, featuring staged teaching content, practical teaching activities, and real themes and problem-solving tasks. The results show that the coding literacy of students in the different teaching strategy groups was significantly improved. However, in the Arduino course on DBL programming, the students in the experimental group had a significantly higher learning efficiency in coding literacy than those in the control group. Moreover, according to the qualitative analysis using student interviews, Arduino boards were found to improve students’ motivation to learn coding and to aid in systematically guiding students toward improving their coding literacy by combining their learning with DBL theory. Thus, Arduino technology can be effectively used to improve students’ programming abilities and their operational thinking in practically applying programming theories.

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