Inquiry / Discovery-Based Instruction to Improve Critical Thinking Skills and Mastery of Physics Concepts

DOI

10.2991/icei-17.2018.18How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Instruction, Thinking Skills, Mastery of Physics Concepts

Abstract

Inquiry/discovery-based instruction is a teaching model that en-ables students actively and independently discover and acquire their knowledge. The role of the teacher is only as a facilitator that guides them to discover and solve the problems they encounter. Using one group pretest and postest design, the present study was aimed to find out the effectiveness of inquiry/discovery-based teaching to improve high school students' critical thinking skills and mastery of physics concepts. An effect size was used to measure the effectiveness of the inquiry/discovery-based instruction. Moreover, the improvement of critical thinking skills and mastery of physics concepts was seen from an N-Gain analysis using a two-way MANOVA statistical test. The result of the study showed that inquiry/discovery-based instruction was effective in improving critical thinking skills and students' mastery of physics concepts during the discovery process in conducting an experiment

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Choirul Huda
AU  - Sudi Aji
AU  - Muhammad Hudha
AU  - Mr. Wartono
AU  - F. Gamat
PY  - 2018/02
DA  - 2018/02
TI  - Inquiry / Discovery-Based Instruction to Improve Critical Thinking Skills and Mastery of Physics Concepts
BT  - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Education Innovation (ICEI 2017)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 66
EP  - 68
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icei-17.2018.18
DO  - 10.2991/icei-17.2018.18
ID  - Huda2018/02
ER  -