Visualization Program of Practical Work Manual for Biology Concepts on Health Education Topics

Abstract

Science practical work has to be carried out with due regard to the availability of resources and has to facilitate student learning, but in accordance with the instructional goals. A practical work manual need to be supplemented with relevant visualization programs in order to improve students’ understanding of practical work on health education topics. The objectives of the research were to identify practical topics that need visualization programs and to develop an example of a visualization program for the practical work. The results of the research were models of visualizing practical work procedures in biology on the topics of health education. The study carried out using the design of qualitative research method. The source of data and information consisted of five lecturers and sixteen students of the Biology Education Program. The instruments consisted of focus group discussion, interviews, document analyses, questionnaires, and test. The results indicated that practical works manual require programs to visualize practical instructions that students must undertake. The visualization programs are to provide a more detailed explanation of the components of the topic discussed, such as in the respiratory system, to provide a detailed description of the procedures that must be carried out, for example in practicums of measuring respiration rates, and to detail observations, for example in practicums of the sex determination of fruit flies. In addition, the results specified that in the development of programs that visualize practical instructions and biological concepts could use the Dick & Carey Systems Approach Model for Designing Instruction. The programs are to increase students’ understanding of practical work and towards the content discussed. However, further researchs need to conduct in order to explore and analyze the level of student understanding.