Abstract
Teaching physic in high schools is very challenging, especially where the teachers understanding of the concept and teaching methods is still limited. It needs an effort to make the teaching more exciting experience for students. This study, therefore, aims to investigate the application of Science Process Skills (SPS) as the scientific skills that can be used to develop and increase science process skills and understanding of physics subject through laboratory activity. This study utilizes experimental design by involving students grade X from Senior High School (SMA) 1 Banda Aceh academic year 2018/2019 as a sample. It follows the competency standard of 2013 Indonesian Curriculum. This study found that there is a positive correlation between the content of the physics syllabus and the science process skills. This condition has contributed positively to the learning achievements of students. The result of pre-and post-test shows the result of post-test has improved after applying this approach. Hence it is recommended that science Process Skills can be promoted as a tool to improve the ability of students in understanding the science concept within the physic, as well as other science subjects.
Highlights
Learning is a process or activity that aims to provide experience and knowledge to students, so there is a change of the way of thinking, attitude, and acting
Science process skills are skills which are methods used by scientists to study or investigate a problem, an issue, a question or a scientific phenomenon that happened during the process of learning (Germann 1991)
The process skills as an approach in the learning process that focuses on the activity and creativity of students to develop the physical and mental abilities that have been owned to a higher level in processing the acquisition of learning (Hamalik 2009)
Summary
Learning is a process or activity that aims to provide experience and knowledge to students, so there is a change of the way of thinking (cognitive), attitude (affective), and acting (psychomotor). The science process skills are part of scientific work involving process skills and scientific attitudes This is one of effective methods that can be used in learning physics as it can be used to stimulate the three aspects of learning (cognitive, psychomotor, and affective) simultaneously (Wiwin and Kustijono 2018). SPS can help students to feel the nature of science This skill can be sufficiently obtained when students conduct practicum activities that focus on the improvement of science process skills and scientific attitudes (Darmaji 2018). The science process skills, concepts are useful to understand of all science subjects (Hodosyová 2015) It has been proved by a diversity of studies that learning by using inquiry in the laboratory has been known effective in developing students' science process skill during the learning process (Khan and Iqbal 2011). Using the inquiry learning in the laboratory can provide a way students intellectual skills (thinking skills) that related to reflective thinking processes, as known as SPS (Yuniyanti 2012)
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