Exploration of confidence in research skill for pre-service physics teacher

Abstract

Teacher is the main actor who has important role in problem solving in every learning process. The problem solving can be done through research studies. Uniquely, teachers’ research reports in Indonesia are more done by the male teachers than the female teachers. Teacher comes from a trained pre-service teacher. Research skills are obtained when they become pre-service teachers. This research exploring belief in the research skill of pre-service teacher and showing the difference of research skills based on gender. The method used was through some surveys on a Likert scale. This research skills questionnaire was measuring as follows: planning, choosing problems, studying literatures, choosing instruments, collecting data, choosing method and analyzing data, interpreting data and concluding research result. Samples were chosen from random sampling consists of 22 males and 140 female’s pre-service physics teachers of university in Lampung. The results showed that the average value of different test for each aspect of research skills obtained p-value ≥0.05. The conclusion that pre-service physics teachers have good research skills of average value = 4.03, there is no significant difference by gender. The result of this survey can be used in developing research skills of pre-service teachers, especially in publication of article.