Turning Crisis into Opportunity: Indonesian Chemistry Teachers’ Perceptions of Socio-Scientific Issues in COVID-19
- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.210326.029How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Teachers’ perceptions, Socio-scientific issues, Chemistry learning, COVID-19
- Abstract
This study examines Indonesian chemistry teachers’ perceptions of socio-scientific issues (SSIs) related to COVID-19. The explored aspects include the need to introduce SSI such as COVID-19 into chemistry learning, teachers’ personal efficacy beliefs regarding SSI, and the main obstacle in SSI teaching. This research was a triangulated mixed-methods design, and the data were analyzed descriptively. The 58 in-service chemistry teachers (15 males; 43 females) from 11 regions in East Java, Indonesia were chosen using a convenience sampling technique. Data were collected using a developed five-point Likert-type questionnaire. Next, a semi-structured interview was carried out with six random participants as samples. The instruments had high reliability (Cronbach’s Alpha = 0.73). This research reveals that participants perceived a need to introduce SSI to increase student interest. Most of them (63.8%) agree that students need to learn and improve their decision-making skills through SSI. However, some of them (41.4%) perceived the lack of instructional time. From the interviews, it was revealed that the unavailability of relevant material was the main obstacle in SSI teaching. Nevertheless, the teachers still wanted to develop learning materials on SSI. This study implies that further design-based research is needed by integrating individual activities into coherent instructional modules.
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- © 2021, 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/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Ervita Eka Rosawati AU - Sri Rahayu PY - 2021 DA - 2021/03/28 TI - Turning Crisis into Opportunity: Indonesian Chemistry Teachers’ Perceptions of Socio-Scientific Issues in COVID-19 BT - Proceedings of the 6th International Seminar on Science Education (ISSE 2020) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 211 EP - 223 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210326.029 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.210326.029 ID - Rosawati2021 ER -