Developing guided-inquiry-student worksheets to improve the science process skills of high school students on the heat concept

Abstract

Conventional student worksheets applied in schools had not been effectively improve the student creativity because the students were not trained science process skills in most lab practical activities. Practical works were only confirmation of lab procedure. The purpose of this research is to compose guide inquiry-based student worksheets using R & D methods with ADDIE model. The validated student worksheet was implemented at public senior high school in Banda Aceh by randomly sample the class from five parallel classes. After implementation, a test for basic science process skills was performed by students and students’ respond were collected using questioners. The finding showed that the student process skills were significantly improved after the guided-inquiry learning was implemented using the effective student worksheet. Most students recommended the guide inquiry students worksheet to apply in other classes because easy to understand, contextual and motivating students to do science investigation.