Abstract
The ability to solve problems is a vital part to be developed for students in the teaching and learning process. The objective of this research was to identify different stages of ability in solving physics problems regarding thinking styles and confidence level and the correlation between the two variables and the ability to solve physics problems. A quantitative method with the cross-sectional design was used in this research. All of the second-grade students in natural science program of State Senior High School 5 Banda Aceh ware the population members while 30 students ware chosen as the samples by using random sampling technique. A test measuring the ability to solve physics problem and a questionnaire measuring thinking style and confidence level of the students ware used as the research instruments. The data that had been collected ware then analyzed by using one way ANOVA test. The results indicated that there was a significant difference in the ability to solve physics problems regarding thinking style and confidence level of the students. Moreover, it was also found that there was a correlation between the two variables and the ability to solve the physics problem.
Highlights
The students’ ability in solving physics problems in Indonesia is not satisfying
Problem solving is the most important competence that have to be owned by the students as it is in the Indonesian Government Regulation Number 69 Year 2013 about Curriculum Structure SMA/MA (Saputi & Wilujeng, 2016)
Difficulties in problem solving can be seen from the result of national examination, like the one that happened in Senior High School 5 Banda Aceh, the average score for the national examination for phyiscs subject is low which is only 54,95 in 2015/2016 and in 2016/2017 it was only 30,96 (Education Department of Aceh Province, year 2016-2017)
Summary
Problem solving is the most important competence that have to be owned by the students as it is in the Indonesian Government Regulation Number 69 Year 2013 about Curriculum Structure SMA/MA (Saputi & Wilujeng, 2016). A lot of attempt have been done by the government and teachers, but our students ability in solving problem is still low. The systematicity in problem solving is different from one another depending on the thinking style. Different thinking style make the information that is accepted by the learners are learned in different ways, too, and this resulting in their way to solve problems (Lestanti et al, 2015; Rosyida et al, 2016). From the research conducted by Suriana et al, (2016) it showed that from the four thinking style type, those who use sequential abstract are better in comprehending concepts compared to random abstract, random concrete, and sequential concrete
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