The Modern Physics Practicum: Students creatively and critically thinking in the 21st-century competencies

Abstract

The Physics Practicum is learning in the laboratory. The learning process in the laboratory must develop critical thinking skills and creativity. Modern physics practicum must be supported by modules that guide the formation of 21st-century competencies in learning abstract modern physics. Research and development of modern physics practicum modules using the Dick and Carrey stages. The Practicum Module was developed for constructivism learning. Students are guided in collecting data, processing data into graphs, reading and interpreting graphs, and finding data regularities so that they are able to build modern physics concepts that are practiced. The feasibility of the practicum module product was validated by experts using a questionnaire. The components assessed are the feasibility of the content, the feasibility of the learning process, and the feasibility of the media. The learning process in practicum module products includes the stages of forming 21st-century competencies, namely: the accuracy of the practicum stages, creativity in building measurable data tables, creativity in processing data and critically finding regular data forms, converting data tables into graphs, finding relationships between variables, so as to be able to build concepts modern physics put into practice. The feasibility of modern physics content reaches 94%, the feasibility of the learning process is 96.8%, and the eligibility of the media is 96.3%. Overall, this product is considered feasible to be used to build 21st-century competencies for students of physics education at universities.