Ability Of Seventh Grade Students Research Articles

The Effect of Using Canva Media on Descriptive Text Writing Ability of Seventh Grade Students

This research was aimed to discover whether there is any effect of using Canva as teaching media on descriptive text writing ability of SMP YLPI seventh grade students. The researcher conducted an interview to observe how writing was taught in the school, what were the difficulties students and teachers were facing and how familiar are they with the use of media in teaching. From this interview, researcher noticed that the students have difficulties developing ideas and challenged when learning writing. Experimental research was used in this study. This research is classified as a quasi-experiment, where in conducting this research, the writer involved one group pre-test and post-test design without the use of control group. Sampling technique used in this research was non-probability sampling with purposive sampling technique which took 20 students of class VII¹ as the sample of this research from the entire population of 37 first year students. The data were collected through a written test which were performed during the pre-test and post-test stage where it showed improvement in students’ five indicators which are content, organization, vocabulary, grammar, and mechanical before and after treatment was given. The results showed that the mean score of one group experimental class in pre-test was 60,5 and was 66 in post-test. the improvement of mean score from pre-test to post-test was 5,5. This indicates that Canva improves the students’ writing ability. These findings suggest that Canva can be used as a reliable teaching media to teach writing and improves students learning outcomes.

Computational thinking ability becomes a predictor of mathematical critical thinking ability

This research aims to determine the relationship between computational thinking ability and mathematical critical thinking ability of seventh-grade students at SMPN 49 Jakarta. Computational thinking ability is skills or processes in solving problems effectively, while mathematical critical thinking ability is a process of analyzing problems to make an accurate decision. This research used correlation research with research subjects consisting of 14 female students and 16 male students. The instrument in this study is a test in the form of a description, which is measured using indicators. This study used decomposition, pattern recognition, abstraction, and algorithm thinking as indicators of computational thinking ability. This study uses elementary clarification, essential support, inference, advanced clarification, strategy, and tactics as indicators of mathematical critical thinking. The outcome of this research showed a positive correlation between computational thinking ability and students’ mathematical critical thinking ability. The relationship analysis shows a simultaneous and significant relationship between computational thinking and essential mathematical thinking abilities. The correlation test results using Pearson Product Moment obtained a result of 0.897 with a coefficient of determination of 80.5%. The magnitude of the correlation indicates that the two abilities have a solid relationship. If computational thinking ability is high, then mathematical critical thinking ability is also high, and if computational thinking ability is low, then mathematical critical thinking ability is also low.

Peningkatan Nalar Kritis Pembelajaran PAKat Melalui Model PBL Berbantuan E-Modul Siswa Fase D Kelas VII di SMPN 26 Surakarta

Abstract. The implementation of the Merdeka curriculum at SMPN 26 began with choosing an independent type of change and in the future it will lead to independent sharing. Catholic Religious Education participates to strive for this. Based on the diagnostic assessment, the critical thinking of seventh grade Catholic students is still minimal, characterized by low literacy scores in the education report card and the inability of students to answer C3-C6 questions. So a class action research was conducted to improve the critical reasoning ability of seventh grade students by applying a relevant model, namely Problem Based Learning assisted by E-Modules. The research was carried out with the type of action research on a sample of 11 seventh grade students who were Catholic on October 24 and November 2 with 2 cycles in 4 stages. The results of the research in cycle 1 obtained data on the ability to reason critically VII grade students reached 67% and increased 18% in cycle 2 by 85%, with an increase in criteria from feasible and capable to proficient from 36% to 83% while for learning outcomes there was an increase from 82% to 100% achievement of KKTP, with an increase in criteria from feasible and capable to proficient from 36% to 83%. From the results of this study, it can be concluded that the Problem Based Learning learning model assisted by E-Modules is effective in improving critical thinking skills and learning outcomes of seventh grade students at SMPN 26 Surakarta.

The Effectiveness of Using Video in Teaching Speaking of the Seventh Grade Students’ at SMP Negeri 17 Makassar

Technological developments are also growing rapidly. Its development is almost sectoral, economic, political, and educational have implemented technology. One of them is the use of video. Video can be used as a solution to overcome the low ability of students to understand a concept. This study aims to determine the effect of WhatsApp groups on the ability to write narrative texts of eighth grade students of SMP Negeri 17 Makassar. This study uses a quantitative type of experimental method, there are two classes, namely the experimental class using video and the control class not using video. The sample of this study was class VII students consisting of 32 students for the experimental class and 32 students for the control class. The data collection technique in this study uses pre-test and post-test to collect data by giving text to write. The results of this study indicate that the post-test experimental class has a mean value of 74.69 and the post-test control class has a mean value of 72 ,66. The results of the data analyzed using independent sample t-test, showed that Sig.(2-tailed) was 0.000 lower than 0.05 so that the alternative hypothesis (Ha) was accepted and the null hypothesis (H0) was rejected so that there was an effect of using video in teaching speaking to students after using the video. Based on the results of this study, it can be concluded that video media is effective in improving the speaking ability of seventh grade students of SMP Negeri 17 Makassar.

The Effect of Error Analysis-Based Learning on Proportional Reasoning Ability of Seventh-Grade Students

This study investigated the effect of mathematical error analysis-based learning on proportional reasoning ability of seventh-grade students. To achieve the purpose of the study, a proportion unit for the seventh-grade students in Jordan was designed according to the error analysis-based learning. A sample of 45 seventh-grade students participated in the study and were randomly assigned into the following two groups: Experimental group and control group. The data were collected through the following two instruments: A proportional reasoning test and an interview, after ensuring their reliability and validity. The results of the study revealed that the error analysis-based learning led to a significant improvement in proportional reasoning among the experimental group and contributed to providing students with positive experiences in learning mathematics. In light of these results, a set of recommendations for educational researchers, mathematics curriculum designers, and mathematics teachers were presented.

ANALISIS KEMAMPUAN INTERPRETASI PESERTA DIDIK SMP PADA MATERI PERBANDINGAN

<em>This study aims to describe the interpretation ability of seventh grade students of SMP Negeri 3 Satu Atap Embaloh Hilir in comparative material. This type of research is a qualitative research designed to determine the students' interpretation ability in comparative material. Data collection techniques in the form of tests and interviews. The instrument used is in the form of an interpretation ability test, which amounts to 1 question. Interviews were conducted to further explore students' interpretation abilities. The research sample consisted of 1 student in the high category (YL), 1 student in the medium category (NR) and 1 student in the low category (NP). The results showed that (1) students in the high category (YL) in solving comparative material problems were able to understand the problem well, were able to interpret the data from the problem, were able to develop a plan of completion and carry out the appropriate settlement steps. (2) Students in the medium category (NR) are able to understand the problem quite well, but do not write down the information that is known and what questions are asked when solving comparative material problems, able to plan and implement a settlement plan in accordance with the completion steps and arithmetic operation rules. mix even though it's not quite right. (3) Students in the low category are unable to understand comparative material problems, are unable to plan and implement solutions, and are unable to evaluate and interpret the answers obtained.</em>

The correlations among learning motivation, self-confidence, and writing ability of students descriptive text

This thesis was concerned with the inquiry on the correlations among learning motivation, self-confidence, and writing ability of the seventh grade students at State Junior High School of Lubai Ulu Sub-District of Muaraenim Regency. The problem of the study was to investigate the correlation among students’ learning motivation, self-confidence, and writing ability. The total number of the population were 474 students. The sample for this study was 83 students taken through a simple random sampling technique. Data were collected by adopting a questionnaire for learning motivation, self-confidence, and test for writing ability. Data were analyzed by using r-Product Moment and Multiple Regression. Finding showed that: (1) there was significant correlation between learning motivation and writing ability; (2) there was not any significant correlation between self-confidence and writing ability; (3) there was not any significant correlation between learning motivation and self-confidence; (4) there were significant correlations among learning motivation, self-confidence, and writing ability of seventh grade-students at state Junior High School of Lubai Ulu Muaraenim.

The Effect of Contextual Teaching And Learning (CTL) Learning Model on The Ability Of Concept Understanding Class VII Students of SMP 16, Kota Bengkulu

This study aims to determine the effect of the Contextual Teaching and Learning (CTL) learning model on the ability to understand the concepts of class VII students of SMP 16 Kota Bengkulu. The research carried out was quasi-experimental with a population of all students in class VII of SMP 16 Kota Bengkulu totaling 218 students. Samples were taken by random sampling technique and a sample of 60 students was obtained, 30 students in the VIIA class as the experimental class, 30 students in the VIIE class as the control class. Data collection using Instrument concept understanding ability test. Data analysis techniques using Ancova. The results showed that there was the influence of the Contextual Teaching and Learning (CTL) learning model on the conceptual comprehension ability of seventh grade students in Bengkulu City 16 Junior High School at 80.50% with an average of 82.75 and there was an effect of an initial ability of 60.50% with an average average of 82.80. It can be concluded that the ability to understand students' concepts is better by using the Contextual Teaching and Learning (CTL) learning model.

ANALISIS KEMAMPUAN PEMECAHAN MASALAH MATEMATIK SISWA SMP PADA MATERI PERSAMAAN LINEAR SATU VARIABEL

This study aims to analyze the level of mathematical problem solving ability of junior high school students in Cianjur Regency on one variable linear equation material. The method used in this study is qualitative descriptive method. The population in this study were seventh grade students in one of the junior high schools in Cianjur Regency which numbered 50 students. The sampling technique is by purposive sampling technique, then 10 research subjects were determined. The instrument used was in the form of 4 items about mathematical problem solving abilities in one variable linear equation material and interviews on selected subjects. The conclusion of this study is the mathematical problem solving ability of seventh grade students in Cianjur Regency seen from the indicators identifying the adequacy of the data to solve the problem is quite high, but the indicators make mathematical models, apply strategies to solve problems and check the truth of the results and answers are still relatively low

THE APPLICATION OF PICTURES AND PEER ASSESSMENT FOR TEACHING DESCRIPTIVE TEXT IN WRITING CLASS

English has four basic language skills those are listening, writing, reading and speaking. Teaching English at Junior high school is based on the school based curriculum. In competence based curriculum, students should be able to produce written texts based on certain genres, and one of them is descriptive text. Based on the observation, the ability of students in seventh grade of SMP Pemecutan Denpasar, in making descriptive text is lower than the other genres. Students feel bored in writing class and get stuck in describing something. Because of these difficulties, some efforts have been done to solve the problems. One of them is by teaching writing especially for descriptive text by using pictures and combined it with peer assessment. This study is intended to improve the ability of seventh grade students of SMP Pemecutan Denpasar in writing descriptive text. This study was designed in the form of classroom action research to 17 students that consists of two cycles and involving four steps in each cycle namely planning, action, observation and reflection. In order to collect the data, three instruments were used those are test, observation and questioner. The data were analyzed qualitative and quantitative based on rubric proposed by Brown (1994) and Nurgiyantoro (2010). The data analyses were presented in the table and chart as well as also in descriptive narrative sentences. The result of this study showed that the implementing of pictures and peer assessment could improve the ability of students in writing descriptive text. It can be seen from the mean score of students was 58 in pretest and after conducting the treatment in the first cycle the student’s mean score improved to 71 and become 77 in second cycle. There are 5 students (29,41%) who passed the KKM in pre test and there is a significant increasing in first cycle becomes 12 students (70,58%) and all students (100%) passed the KKM in second cycle. It can be inferred that the combination of pictures and peer assessment was very effective helping the students in writing a descriptive text and build their motivation in writing class.

The Effect of Generate Argument’ Instruction Model to Increase Reasoning Ability of Seventh Grade Students on Interactions of Living Thing with their Environment

This study aim to examine the effect of generates an argument instruction model to increase students’ thinking skills, especially reasoning ability in lesson material of interactions of living thing with their environment. The study use weak experimental method with and the design is One-group pretest-posttest design. Sample in this study consists of 34 junior high school students of Seventh Grade in one of the junior high school in Ciamis. The instrument used to collect data is the essay questions of reasoning ability test according to reasoning Marzano’s framework which consist of the eight indicators that are comparing, classifying, induction, deduction, constructing support, analyzing perspectives, analyzing errors, and abstraction. In generally, the results show there is an increase in the students’ reasoning ability is significantly (Sig = 0.000). In addition, an increase in the ability of reasoning also viewed based on gender, and the result show there is not significantly (Sig = 0.168) the difference of reasoning ability between male student and female student. Increasing the ability of reasoning divided into two categories that is middle and low category.

أثر برنامج تعليميّ مُدعّم بالتأثيرات الضوئية في حلّ المسألة الرياضية والقدرة المكانية لدى طلبة الصف السابع الأساسي في فلسطين*

This study aims at investigating the effect of an educational program supported with illuminations on problem solving and spatial ability among seventh grade students in Palestine. The Quasi-experimental design based on experimental and control groups was used in the study. Thus, the subjects of the study were (67) students from two sections, section (A) was selected randomly as an experimental group and exposed to the educational program supported with illuminations, section (B) was selected randomly as a control group and exposed to the ordinary instructional program. To achieve the aims of the study, three instruments were used for data collection: the educational program supported with illuminations, a test for measuring students' mathematical problem solving and a scale for measuring students' spatial ability. The results showed that there is a significant difference in problem solving among seven grade students in Palestine, in favor of the educational program and there is a significant difference in spatial ability among seven grade students in Palestine, in favor of the educational program. Based on the result, the researchers recommended the adoption of this study results, recommendations and it's educational program as a response for the effect of educational software on developing problem solving and spatial ability among the students, the necessity of training math teachers on using illuminations as programmed ones and the necessity of giving students chances to learn math through interactive educational software and enabling them to construct and represent math concepts. سعت الدراسة إلى تقصّي أثر برنامج تعليمي مُدعّم بالتأثيرات الضوئية في حلّ المسألة الرياضية والقدرة المكانية لدى طلبة الصف السابع الأساسي في فلسطين. استخدم في هذه الدراسة التصميم شبه التجريبي لمجموعتين (تجريبية وضابطة) عددهما (67) طالبة، طُبّق على المجموعة التجريبية البرنامج المُدعّم بالتأثيرات الضوئية، بينما طُبّق على المجموعة الضابطة طريقة التدريس الاعتيادي. ولتحقيق أهداف الدراسة تم استخدام ثلاث أدوات هي: البرنامج المُدعّم بالتأثيرات الضوئية، واختبار حلّ المسألة الرياضية، ومقياس القدرة المكانية. أظهرت نتائج الدراسة وجود فرق دال إحصائياً ( = 0.05) في حلّ المسألة الرياضية يُعزى إلى البرنامج المُدعّم بالتأثيرات الضوئية، كما أظهرت النتائج وجود فرق دال إحصائياً ( = 0.05) في القدرة المكانية يُعزى إلى البرنامج المُدعّم بالتأثيرات الضوئية. وبناء على هذه النتائج، توصي الدراسة بضرورة الاستفادة من برنامجها التعليمي؛ لما أظهرته النتائج من أثر إيجابي للتأثيرات الضوئية في تحسين حلّ المسألة الرياضية والقدرة المكانية لدى الطلبة، وضرورة إتاحة الفرص للطلبة لتعلّم الرياضيات من خلال برمجيات تعليمية تفاعلية جاهزة، يستطيع الطلبة من خلالها بناء المفاهيم الرياضية وتمثيلها.

IMPROVING THE ABILITY OF THE SEVENTH GRADE STUDENTS IN WRITING SIMPLE DESCRIPTIVE PARAGRAPHS THROUGH CLUSTERING STRATEGY

The objective of this research is to find out that the use of Clustering Strategy can improve the the ability of the seventh grade students of SMP Negeri 1 Sindue Tombusabora in writing simple descriptive paragraphs. This research applied true-experimental research design which involved two sample groups. There were an experimental group and a control group. The population of this research was the seventh grade students of SMP Negeri 1 Sindue Tombusabora and the sample consisted of four classes: VII A, VII B, VII C, and VII D . The sample was selected by using random sampling technique In collecting data, the researcher used one instrument, namely test. The pre-test was used to measure the students’ ability in writing simple descriptive paragraphs before treatment and post-test was used to measure the students’ ability after the treatment. The data were analyzed by using a statistical analysis in order to know the significant difference of the students’ achievement both in pre-test and post-test. The result of data analysis showed that the t-counted value (9.9) was greater than the t-table value (2.026) by applying 0.05 level of significance and the degree of freedom (df) was 38 (df= 20 + 20 – 2= 38). In conclusion, the use of clustering strategy can improve the ability of seventh grade students of SMP Negeri 1 Sindue Tombusabora in writing simple descriptive paragraphs. Keywords :Clustering Strategy, Descriptive Paragraph, Writing Ability.