Development of INoSIT (Integration Nature of Science in Inquiry with Technology) Learning Models to Improve Science Literacy: A Preliminary studies

Has successfully created the INoSIT learning paradigm to increase students' science literacy competency. This design aims to integrate information and communication technology (ICT) with inquiry and nature of science (NoS) models to teach scientific literacy to junior high school students using a multi-representation method. The BSCS 5E model (Involvement of Biological Science Curriculum Study, Exploration, Explanation, Elaboration, and Evaluation) and the IBL model (Investigation-based learning) have many phases whose implementation requires many processes. So, the INoSIT model is designed to simplify multiple phases or sub-phases. As a result, IBL (inquiry-based learning) is ineffective and inefficient in terms of learning time. It is also challenging to teach scientific literacy of abstract concepts using this method. The study employs a descriptive analysis method in conjunction with a literature review pattern. The INoSIT model with the syntax Eliciting, Hypothesis, Testing Hypothesis, Elucidation, and Reflection was created from the results of the investigation of the weaknesses of the BSCS 5E (Biological Science Curriculum Study Engagement, Exploration, Explanation, Elaboration, and Evaluation) and the IBL (Inquiry-based learning) models. To construct students' knowledge of literacy and the study is anticipated to contribute to creativity, originality, and the development of a proclivity for inquiry and research

Penggunaan Lembar Kerja Digital untuk Mengembangkan Keterampilan Komunikasi Mahasiswa pada Mata kuliah Telaah Kurikulum Fisika

This study aims to develop students' communication skills in the Physics Curriculum Study course through the use of Digital Worksheets. The subjects of this study were 23 students of class 5B. The student came from the Physics Education Study Program, University of Mataram, who attended the Physics Curriculum Study course in the odd semester of the 2021/2022 academic year. The research instrument used was a student communication skill observation sheet with three indicators. Observations were made online at the Learning Management System (LMS) equipped with Digital Worksheets on the Discussion Forum menu. Observations were made every meeting, namely 14 times using a 4-scale rating score. The increase in score from the first meeting to the last meeting was calculated using N-gain. The average score of student communication skills is 79.5 which is in good criteria. The improvement of students' communication skills based on the calculation of N-gain is 72.7 which is in the high category. Thus, the use of Digital Worksheets can develop students' communication skills in the Physics Curriculum Study course.

Skin Colour in India vis-à-vis Bleaching Syndrome Pathology: Augmenting Social Work Curriculum Content

The issue of skin colour has eluded the Indian social work curriculum as an insignificant matter of trivia. However, despite the fact skin colour remains of Indian cultural and social significance. Subsequently, the skin colour issue is then manifested by the bleaching syndrome in stealth inclusive of gender, health and economics. The dynamics of this manifestation are commensurate with dark-skinned Indians in the Indian society at-large. However, reference to the bleaching syndrome is iconoclastic in the Indian scenario and public acknowledgement of it per skin colour is a cultural taboo. While assessing social work curriculum content in an alien Western context, native Indian criteria such as skin colour are rendered vague. Skin colour variables extending from the various sectors of Indian society are then dismissed from curriculum study as insignificant curriculum content. A viable solution might consider inclusion of the bleaching syndrome per skin colour as required curriculum content in Indian social work education to resolve the problem.

Rethinking Teaching in the Third Millennium. Possible Suggestions for History Teachers

Our research starts from the idea that evaluating the quality of the educational process in history, in the conditions of the educational process in history, in the conditions of 21st century education, is an attempt as difficult as it is interesting and instructive. In recent years, Romanian educations has undergone numerous transformations, both in terms of curricular aspects, respectively the curriculum, study programs and textbooks, as well as those related to the managerial component. In this process, operations of request and response, analysis and synthesis, evaluation and application have intervened and continue to intervene, all built on the basis of strategies in which all educational factors are involved.

Impact of Games and Online Activities on Students with Learning Disabilities in Improving Visual Perception and Maintaining Vision Power

The study aimed to identify the impact of games and electronic activities in improving visual perception in students with learning disabilities using the descriptive survey curriculum study. The study members are from the entire community of 160 teachers and a teacher of doctors with learning disabilities of education directorates in The Province of Oman. The results showed that the level of impact of games and electronic activities in improving visual perception in students with learning difficulties has come with an average result. The average arithmetic of the total degree (3.66), as well as the results, showed statistically significant differences in the impact of the sex variable and for females, the effect of the variable scientific qualification, and for the benefit of the bachelor. The impact of the variable years of experience and in favor of experience from (5years to 10 years) and the effect of the variable method of teaching came in favor of the electronic method.

Mengajarkan Keterampilan Proses Sains Dalam Pembelajaran Jarak Jauh

Pengalaman belajar saintifik merupakan pengalaman belajar penting bagi peserta didik. Peserta didik harus memiliki keterampilan psrasyarat dalam pengalaman belajar saintifik, keterampilan dasar tersebut adalah keterampilan proses sains. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui kerangka kerja dalam membekalkan keterampilan proses sebagai dasar pengalaman saintifik dalam pembelajaran jarak jauh. Metode dalam penelitian ini adalah metode deskripstif melalui studi dokumen dan literatur. Pengalaman belajar melalui pendekatan saintifik merupakan salah satu standar proses dalam pembelajaran mata pelajaran biologi. Pengalaman belajar melalui pendekatan saintifik mempersyaratkan peserta didik mememiliki keterampilan dasar menjalankan proses saintifik, untuk menjalankan proses saintifik peserta didik harus memiliki keterampilan proses sains dasar. Guru perlu mengupayakan keterampilan proses sains ini dimiliki terlebih dahulu di awal-awal kegiatan pembelajaran biologi di sekolah. Dalam kurikulum BSCS (Biological Science Curriculum Study) dikatakan bahwa tema persoalan biologi pertama yang harus diajarkan kepada peserta didik adalah sains sebagai sebuah proses penyelidikan. Kondisi saat ini dimana peserta didik harus belajar di rumah menjadi tantangan tersendiri bagi para guru untuk melatihkan keterampilan proses peserta didik. Melatihkan keterampilan proses perlu pengalaman hand-on yang dilakukan peserta didik. Sehingga guru harus menyiapkan tugas, instruksi atau bimbingan yang memungkinkan peserta didik melakukan proses sains di rumah, untuk menyiapkan hal tersebut guru memerlukan kerangka kerja pembelajaran jarak jauh yang dapat membekalkan keterampilan proses sains, sebagai keterampilan dasar untuk menjalankan standar proses pembelajaran sains.

A Critical Survey of Environmental Content in United States Undergraduate Mechanical Engineering Curricula

This survey examines how mechanical engineers are being prepared to be responsible stewards of the environment by offering a multi-channeled look at a diverse collection of twelve US colleges and universities, with connections to the larger global context. This study enumerates the external influences of professional organizations, those responsible for program accreditation (Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET)), professional conduct (American Society of Mechanical Engineers), and licensure (National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying, National Society of Professional Engineers). At the curricular level, this study presents current mechanical engineering curricula via core courses (required at most institutions) and non-core courses (required at a minority of institutions or elective courses). The curriculum study identifies fifteen core courses and uses the Open Syllabus Project and online bookstores to identify a representative textbook and classify the environmental content therein. Immediate results show the environment receiving sparse treatment in core course textbooks, institutions having zero environment-focused degree requirements, and a tendency towards offering electives that are narrowly focused on green technologies. Elective offerings mirror ABET’s recent move away from emphasizing the “broad education necessary to understand the impact” of engineering solutions to instead “consider the impact of” engineering solutions in an environmental context. Overall, the environmental education mechanical engineers are receiving is insufficient in amount and lacking in scientific and ethical foundation. Ideally, every mechanical engineering program should include coordinated environmental content throughout the curriculum and require at least one course that teaches both environmental design principles and the importance of environmental stewardship. A novel approach eschews the typical artes mechanicae course structure to teach environmental stewardship in the artes liberales educational tradition, emphasizing multi-dimensional thinking by employing great books style discussions of seminal scientific, ethical, and technological works.

Faktor Diferensiasi Sekolah di Indonesia

Abstrak Diferensiasi sekolah di Indonesia yaitu sekolah swasta dan sekolah negeri milik pemerintah. Perbedaan lainnya yaitu sekolah milik yayasan yang berlatar belakang agama atau tanpa latar belakang agama. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah menemukan faktor diferensiasi sekolah di Indonesia. Metode penelitian yang digunakan yaitu deskriptif analitik. Berdasarkan hasil penelitian, ditemukan sepuluh diferensiasi sekolah di Indonesia, yaitu afiliasi, bahasa yang digunakan, latar belakang budaya, kurikulum, waktu belajar di sekolah, nilai etika, jalur ke perguruan tinggi, fasilitas, dan harga. Kata Kunci Diferensiasi sekolah, sekolah swasta, sekolah negeri Abstract School differentiation in Indonesia is private schools and government-owned schools. Another difference is that schools belong to foundations with religious or religious backgrounds. The purpose of this study is to find the differentiation factors of schools in Indonesia. The research method used is descriptive analytic. Based on the research results, it was found ten differences in schools in Indonesia, namely provision, language used, cultural background, curriculum, study time at school, ethical values, pathways to tertiary institutions, facilities, and prices. Keywords Differentiation of schools, private schools, public schools