An Analysis of Factors Causing Learning Difficulties of Biology Students in the Microbiology Subject, Universitas Negeri Padang

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10.2991/absr.k.200807.051How to use a DOI?

Keywords

the Microbiology Subject, learning difficulties, factors causing learning difficulties

Abstract

This research was motivated by the learning difficulties experienced by students in the Microbiology Subject that caused their learning competence to be relatively low. This research aims at describing the factors that caused learning difficulties experienced by UNP biology students in the Microbiology Subject. This research was a descriptive research with a qualitative approach. The population in this research was the microbiology lecturers and UNP biology students who had studied the Microbiology Subject. The sample in this research included 2 microbiology lecturers and 4 biology students obtained by a purposive sampling technique. The data collection techniques used were interviews, observation and documentation study. The results showed that students had learning difficulties in the Microbiology Subject that caused by internal and external factors. Internal factors are lack of curiosity, motivation and interest of students in learning microbiology, lack of preparation and readiness of students in presentations and lack of student skills in using foreign language references in the form of text booxes and scientific journals. External factors in the form of learning resources, learning resources owned by students are not appropriate with the subject of the syllabus so students often use reference sources in the form of blogs that have not been validated.

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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  - Lasmi Lestari
AU  - Dwi Hilda Putri
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/08/07
TI  - An Analysis of Factors Causing Learning Difficulties of Biology Students in the Microbiology Subject, Universitas Negeri Padang
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Biology, Sciences and Education (ICoBioSE 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 253
EP  - 258
SN  - 2468-5747
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/absr.k.200807.051
DO  - 10.2991/absr.k.200807.051
ID  - Lestari2020
ER  -