Physics Learning and Education

Need Analysis for Developing STEM Integrated Electronic Teaching Material of Alternative Energy to Promote Students’ Creative Thinking Skills

2025-01-05T11:25:28+00:00

Twenty-first-century education requires students to possess several skills, one of which is creative thinking skills and student-centered learning, where teachers only act as facilitators to develop learning tools, one of which is teaching materials. This research aims to obtain an analysis of the need for the development of integrated STEM electronic teaching materials on alternative energy to enhance students' creative thinking skills. Data collection was carried out through teacher interview instruments, student characteristic questionnaires, and creative thinking skills test questions. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistical analysis techniques. The subjects of this study consist of one physics teacher and 30 students at SMAN 1 Payakumbuh District, as well as one physics teacher and 20 students at SMAN 1 Mungka District. Based on the data analysis conducted, three research findings were obtained. First, the constraints in the development of teaching materials and students' interest in electronic teaching materials in physics learning are categorized as very good with scores of 87.1 and 90.2, respectively. Second, the characteristics of students are categorized as good with a score of 73.5, and the characteristics of students consist of four aspects: students' interest in learning, students' attitudes, students' motivation to learn, and students' learning styles. Lastly, students' creative thinking skills are categorized as very poor with scores of 35.42 and 25.95. The research results indicate the need for a needs analysis for the development of integrated STEM alternative energy electronic learning materials to enhance students' creative thinking skills.

INITIAL ANALYSIS OF STUDENTS' SCIENTIFIC LITERACY ON DYNAMICS OF PARTICLE MOTION

2024-11-09T07:26:54+00:00

One of the most important abilities in the 21st century is scientific literacy. This research is to analyze students' initial physics science literacy abilities in the dynamics of particle motion. The research method used was descriptive quantitative with a sample of 30 students of class XI phase F.7 at SMAN 2 Solok. Data processing is obtained from two categories, namely student tests and teacher questionnaires. From the results of the student test analysis, the indicator for explaining phenomena scientifically is 61% in the "medium" category, the indicator for interpreting data and scientific evidence is 30% in the "very low" category and the indicator for evaluating and designing scientific investigations is 17% in the category “very low”. The overall average in the category of achievement of students' scientific literacy skills is 36% in the "very low" category. The results of the teacher questionnaire on the aspect of the teacher's use of learning models are 26% in the "Rarely" category, the aspect of identifying students' scientific literacy in the material on the dynamics of particle motion is 44% in the "sometimes" category, the aspect of the use of teaching materials and digital learning media is 26% in the "Rarely" category, aspects of carrying out experiments on the dynamics of particle motion, namely 3% in the "Never" category and aspects of the use of facilities and equipment, namely 21% in the "sometimes" category. Based on these results, it can trigger students' low scientific literacy abilities.

INITIAL ANALYSIS OF STUDENTS SCIENCE LITERACY ON ALTERNATIVE ENERGY MATERIAL

2024-11-04T00:12:46+00:00

Scientific literacy is one of the skills that symbolizes expanding knowledge and resolving issues. PISA 2018 findings, however, show that scientific literacy in Indonesia is still very poor. Aspects of students' scientific literacy, including their capacity to evaluate and plan scientific research, interpret data and scientific evidence, and explain occurrences scientifically, will be examined in this study. Analyzing students' scientific literacy in alternative energy content was the aim of this study.. The method used is quantitative descriptive using a scientific literacy test instrument in the form of questions for students and questionnaires for teachers on alternative energy material used to collect data. Twenty-five students and two physics professors made up the research sample. The findings of the examination of two instructors' learning implementation were 60.48%. The average overall competency domain indicator was 47.80% with a very low category, based on students' mastery of scientific literacy in the competency domain indicator explaining scientific phenomena (51.42% with a low category), evaluating and designing scientific investigations (68% with a moderate category), and interpreting data and scientific evidence (24% with a very low category). Thus, it can be said that pupils' scientific literacy regarding alternative energy content is still rather low.

Effect of Design Thinking Based on The PjBL Model on Students' Creative Thinking in Science Learning: A Bibliometric Analysis

2024-12-17T05:07:43+00:00

The purpose of this study is to analyze the collaboration pattern and the impact of the Project-Based Learning (PjBL) model based on design thinking on student creativity. The method used in this study is the bibliometric analysis method on articles from 2019-2024 totaling 100 articles. The articles used were obtained using the Publish or Perish database using VOS Viewer software. VOS Viewer visualization can display bibliometric data analysis mapping in three types, namely network visualization, overlay visualization, and density visualization. There are three research results obtained, namely 1) based on network visualization, the design thinking cluster still has minimal research related to this, but it is related to the PjBL model and creative thinking skills, 2) based on overlay visualization, the keyword design thinking has only emerged since 2022, and 3) based on density visualization, the term that has not been widely studied is design thinking. The results of the analysis show that the PjBL model based on Design Thinking is still rarely used in learning. In fact, the learning model with design thinking is able to increase student creativity, strengthen skills, and improve learning models. Therefore, research on the effect of using the Project-Based Learning (PjBL) model based on design thinking on student creativity in learning is included in the novelty in research so that more in-depth research is needed to prove the increase in students' creative thinking skills.