Proceedings of the International Conference on Science and Education and Technology 2018 (ISET 2018)

The Ability of Scientific Reasoning and Mastery of Physics Concept of State Senior High School Students in Palembang City

Authors
Suhardi Effendy, Yulianti Hartono, Ms Ian
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Suhardi Effendy
Available Online September 2018.
DOI
10.2991/iset-18.2018.102How to use a DOI?
Keywords
scientific reasoning, mastery of physics concepts, physics learning
Abstract

Reasoning is an indispensable ability of learners in physics learning as it is related to the learning outcomes achieved. This study aims to obtain a picture of scientific reasoning in 231 high school students in Palembang City in academic year 2017/2018. The type of this research is descriptive research with survey method. The ability of scientific reasoning and mastery of the physics concepts of students was obtained through written test in the form of multiple choice reasons. Problems used in the study contained 18 items with details of 12 questions about scientific reasoning and 6 questions about mastery of physics concepts. The result of the research shows the scientific reasoning ability of high school students was in the low category and the mastery of physics concept of students remained in the medium category.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the International Conference on Science and Education and Technology 2018 (ISET 2018)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
September 2018
ISBN
978-94-6252-648-8
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/iset-18.2018.102How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
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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