Enhancing Students' High-Order Thinking Skills through STEM-Blended Learning on Kepler's Law During Covid-19 Outbreak

Rudi Haryadi,Khaerudin Khaerudin,Robinson Situmorang

doi:10.30870/jppi.v7i2.12029

Abstract

This study aimed to examines the effectiveness of the implementation of STEM-Blended learning to enhance high school students' high-level thinking skills on Kepler law concept during covid-19 outbreak. The method used in this study is a quasi-experimental method. This study used two class groups including the experimental class and the control class. This study was conducted at one of high schools in Indonesia. The students' higher-order thinking skills for the experimental class was included in the medium category with a percentage of achievement of 75%. However, in the control class, it was included in the medium category with a rate of 61%. The results showed that there were significant differences between experimental and control classes with the value .0015 < 0.05, meaning that the implementation of STEM-Blended learning is effective to enhance high school students' high-level thinking skills on Kepler law concept. This findings will be usefull for the development of STEM Education during Covid-19 outbreak.

Highlights

Through technological help, the covid-19 pandemic given an insight of the future continuation of the field of education (Etika, 2020)
With Indonesia's scenario, which includes hundreds of islands, online learning is a problem for the globe of education (Putri, 2020)
The experimental class is included in the medium category, and the control class is included in the low sort. These results prove that STEM-blended learning can improve students' high order thinking skill (HOTS) abilities

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Introduction

The covid-19 pandemic given an insight of the future continuation of the field of education (Etika, 2020). Technology will never be able to replace instructors' roles or learning exchanges between students and teachers since education is about gaining information and values, cooperating, and being competent (Rahiem, 2020). This pandemic scenario is a measure for every person's inventiveness in using technology to advance the educational process (Mulyanti, 2020). Access to the internet is a difficulty for all parties At this moment, we should try harder to introduce techniques to solve the genuine challenges that teachers and students who are less privileged in terms of funding and technology face in distant places face (Kusumawati, 2020; Taufik, 2020)

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