Exploring the implementation of problem-based learning on acid base neutralization reaction in high school

Abstract

Chemistry learning that only emphasizes the conceptual understanding and calculations is no longer appropriate to the needs of human resources today. Problem-based Learning as one of the innovative learning models designed to help students’ conceptual understanding of chemistry and develop their problem solving skills. This study aims to obtain information’s about the implementation of Problem-based Learning on acid base neutralization reaction subject. This descriptive research involved 20 high school chemistry teachers as participants. Data were collected using interview guidelines which were further processed in accordance with the research question. Result shows that Problem-based Learning has not been widely implemented to acid base neutralization reaction subject due to constraints such as limited time and learning resources. The results of this study indicate the necessary of Problem-based Learning implementation on acid base neutralization reaction subject.