Development of subject-specific pedagogy based on guided inquiry about newton’s law to improve senior high school students’ scientific literacy ability

Abstract

Newton’s law is the foundation law in physics and has many applications in every day life.This study aims to create a subject-specific pedagogy based on guided inquiry about Newton’s law to improve students’ scientific literacy The product was developed through four- D method i.e. define, design, develop, dessemination. The sample included 20 grade XI IPA students of high school 1 Kerinci were involved as subjects on a limited tryout and 64 students on field tryout which separated into two groups as experimental and control class that selected by the random sampling technique. Data are collected through product assessment sheet and test of scientific literacy. Data analysis technique using t-test at 0.05 significance level. Findings show that (1) based on expert judgment, the product i.e. subject-specific pedagogy based on guided inquiry about Newon’s law was appropriate and feasible to be implemented in the classroom; (2) The product was effective to increase the scientific literacy of the students for there were differences between experiment and control class in gain-value of scientific literacy (p=0.011).