Analysis Of Student Difficulties Research Articles

Analysis of Student Difficulties in Learning Mathematics in Class VIII Students at SMP Negeri 2 Hiliduho Academic Year 2021/2022

Learning difficulties are one of the external factors (from outside themselves) of students that have been identified as resulting in low student achievement in mathematics. These learning difficulties can be caused by many factors. This research aims to: (1) analyze students' difficulties in learning mathematics. (2) describe the student's mathematics learning difficulties in mathematics learning. This research was carried out at SMP Negeri 2 Hiliduho. This research is qualitative research with a descriptive approach. The results of data analysis show that: (1) in mathematics learning in Class VIII of SMP Negeri 2 Hiliduho, 69% of 23 students had difficulty learning mathematics. (2) Difficulty learning mathematics is caused by difficulty understanding concepts, difficulty finding the correct solution or formula to solve problems, students' lack of ability in operating numbers and students being unable to write answers correctly.

Analysis of Student Difficulties in Learning Biology

The difficulties experienced by students in the learning process can be seen from internal factors and external factors. Based on the results of interviews and observations, it can be seen in the form of students' difficulties in the learning process, namely a lot of scientific language, less interesting material causing boredom and lack of enthusiasm, lack of focus making it difficult to concentrate. On external factors such as the teacher's teaching methods, lack of attention and motivation from the family, and student learning methods. The purpose of this study was to find out students's difficulties in learning biology. Sampling in this study used a non-probability sampling technique, namely purposive sampling where the total number of students from 4 classes was taken as much as 25% of the total population, so that a sample of 31 students was used as a sample for all students.The instrument used is a questionnaire in the form of a closed statement using a Likert scale and documentation. The data analysis technique used descriptive analysis quantitatively in the form of percentages. Data analysis by using the percentage (%) of student answers. The result of studentlearning difficulties in biology subjects has high category, internal factors with high criteria and the average percentage of external factors with high criteria. It can be concluded that biggest internal factor causing learning difficulties in biology is the factor of fatigue and the biggest external factor is the family factor.

Analysis of Student Difficulties in Online Learning During the COVID-19 Pandemic Class VIII MTsS Khudrinnur In Toari District

Learning in schools before the pandemic was carried out directly in schools, but because of the pandemic, it required teachers and students to carry out the online learning process. Teachers and students experience many obstacles in the online learning process, especially for students new to online learning. This study aims to describe students' difficulties in online learning during the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic and to find out the causes of students' problems in online learning during the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic class VIII Madrasah Tsanawiyah Khudrinnur. This research is a qualitative descriptive study. The samples in this study were students and teachers of class VIII MTsS Khudrinnur. The research instrument is a questionnaire or questionnaire, interviews, and documentation. From the results of the study, it is known that the factors that affect the difficulties in online learning of students are network difficulties of 69.09% of the total number of students. So it can be concluded that the factors that influence students' difficulties in online learning are network difficulties, about 69.09% of the total number of students. Factors do not have a quota of about 68.75 % of the total number of students. The factor of not having a cellphone (HP) is about 66.40% of the total number of students. The aspect of not understanding the material is about 58.85% of the students who do not understand the learning material will ask the teacher when they do not understand. The cool factor for playing games is around 71.35% of students prefer to play games compared to participating in online learning. Keywords : Difficulty, Online (Online), MTSS Khudrinnur

Analysis of student difficulties in learning refraction of light

The use of semiotic resources in developing abilities and skills in physics problems is very important. PIMCA learning model (Presentation, Idea Mapping, Conceptualization and Formative Assessment) introduced and developed by Cosmas Poluakan is the focus of this research. The purpose of this study was to analyze student difficulties on learning the refraction using the PIMCA model based on multi-representation (MR). The type of research used experimental research with one group pretest-posttest design. The research was conducted in the Department of Physics, Manado State University, with 23 students as respondents. The test instrument used for this research has been validated. After processing and analyzing the data, the pretest average score was 15.9 and the posttest average score was 60.2. These results indicate that even though there is an increase in the average proportion of mastery of the refraction of light concept, generally students still have difficulty drawing the angle of incidence, direction of refraction and the position of refraction for the arrangement of 2 mediums. The results of this research recommend that in order to understand the concept of refraction, the use of the PIMCA model needs to provide more practice questions.

An Analysis of Student Difficulties in Mathematics Learning in terms of Student Mathematical Connection Ability on Pythagoras Theorem

This research aimed to describe student difficulties in mathematics learning in terms of student mathematical connection ability on Pythagoras theorem. This research was a qualitative descriptive research with case study design. The research subjects were 18 the IX grade students, then reduced to 5 students and purposive sampling technique was used in this research. Triangulation data such as mathematical connection ability and difficulties of mathematic learning tests and interview were used for collecting the data. The data were analyzed by Miles and Hubermen techniques including three stages: reduction, presentation, and conclusion/verification. The findings of this research showed that, each respondent has different difficulties at each mathematical connection ability level; (1) The subject (very high) mathematical connection ability level did not have problem with all indicators of difficulties in mathematics learning; (2) The subject (high) mathematical connection ability level had associations or visual-motor combination; (3) The subject (medium) mathematical connection ability level had associations or visual-motor combination and difficulties in recognizing and using symbols; (4) The subject (low) mathematical connection ability level had little spatial disruption, association or visual-motor combination, and little difficulties in recognizing and using symbols; (5) The subject (very low) mathematical connection ability level had spatial disruption, association or visual-motor combination, and difficulties in recognizing and using symbols

Analisis Kesulitan Siswa dalam Mengerjakan Soal Cerita Aritmatika Sosial Ditinjau Berdasarkan Gender

In our daily lives, Social Arithmetic can be applied easily, but in reality, in the school environment, there are still many students at the junior high school level who are not familiar with Arithmetics. This research wants to determine and analyze the level of difficulty of junior high school students in solving non-routine problems, especially in social arithmetic material In terms of gender. This research is a qualitative descriptive study. This study aims to describe the analysis of student difficulties in arithmetic material on Social Arithmetic without any prior treatment. This research was conducted at one of the junior high schools in Soreang. The subjects of this study the sample in this study was taken randomly, were 8 junior high school students, 4 female students, and 4 male students. Based on the research result, the average score for male students and female students have almost the same ability ie 56 and 53. The average score for arithmetics Material of both male and female students was under the KKM value of 70, which means that both male and female students have not been able to understand and work on social arithmetic story problems properly.

An Analysis of Student Difficulties in Writing Descriptive at Eight Grade in SMP N 4 Muara Bungo

This Research is descriptive quantitative method. The subjects of the research are twenty five students of second grade at SMPN 4 Muara Bungo who are detected as having constraint in writing of descriptive text. This research is aimed to find out Second grade difficulties in writing of descriptive text and the cause. They are second grade especially VII.2. The test and questionnaire were used as the instruments of this research. The test was used to obtain the data about the Second grade difficulties in writing of descriptive text. Furthermore, the questionnaire ware used to obtain the data about the causes of the second grade difficulties in writing of descriptive text.
 The finding showed that the students find constraint in all point of scoring, the highest percentage is 87% of students have constraint in grammar, the second percentage are 80% of students have constraint in vocabulary and 70% of students have constraint in content, the third percentage is 69% of students have constraint in organizing, and the last percentage is 68% of students have constraint in mechanism. Whereas, the factors causing the Second Grade difficulties in writing mastery of descriptive text are learners’ background (81%), teaching technique (71%), and the learners’ environment (78%). Based on the data finding in this research, some suggestions are given to English teacher that the teacher should emphasize to solve the students’ constraint and also he should learn better to apply the techniques of teaching writing skill. Some suggestions are given to students learn more enterprising about English, especially about writing from descriptive text, pay attention to the teacher well when learning, and if anyone does not understand then ask the teacher.

An Analysis of Student Difficulties in Solving Problems of Reasoning Absolute Value Material

This study aims to determine the types and factors that cause student difficulties in solving reasoning problems on the absolute value material. This research is a type of qualitative descriptive. The subjects of this study were students of class X MIPA 5 SMAN 3 Surakarta in the 2019/2020 school year. Subjects were taken using a purposive sampling technique. The data collection technique used tests and interviews. Before the test is used, it is validated by an expert. Data analysis was carried out using data reduction, data presentation, and concluding. The results of this study indicate that the types of student difficulties are 1) fact difficulties, where the subject has difficulty in analyzing and linking the information from the questions with the questions in the questions. The difficulty of the subject is because the subject does not understand the problem and rarely does the problem in the form of a story; 2) Conceptual difficulty, where the subject has difficulty determining the limits of the two absolute value equations. In determining the limits on the absolute value equation, it is necessary to define absolute value. The difficulty of the subject is because the subject still does not understand the absolute value material; 3) skill difficulty, where the subject has difficulty performing algebraic operations in determining the value of x. The difficulty of the subject is because the subject is not careful in doing and checking the written answers again.

Analysis of student difficulties on algebra problem solving in junior high school

Algebra is one of the mathematical sciences studied in junior high school. Some students may have difficulty learning algebra. This study aims to determine the difficulties experienced by students in solving the problem of algebraic operations. The type of this research is qualitative research with case study approach. Subjects in this study are students of grade 8D 1 Salam Magelang junior high scchool, Central Java in the semester of the year 2016/2017 academic year. Methods of data collection used include algebraic operations tests, open questionnaires, and documentation. Data analysis techniques through data reduction, data presentation, and conclusions. The result of the research that there are students’ difficulties in doing algebraic problems related to concept and principle. Students difficulties experienced related to the concept of difficulty in determining variables and constants including but not understanding the definitions of variables and constants, and difficulties in applying the concept of division in algebra. The difficulty experienced in terms of principle is the application of the principle of addition to the algebraic form, the reduction in algebraic form, multiplication on the algebraic form, simplifying algebraic fractions, factoring, and solving algebra-related stories.

An Analysis of Student Difficulties in Solving the Word Problem

This research is a qualitative descriptive research that aims to describe the types and factors of difficulty in solving mathematics problems in the form of word problems. The research subjects were 22 students who were selected by random sampling technique from one of the junior high schools in Indragiri Hilir. The data was collected through diagnostic tests and interviews conducted openly but not structured. In analyzing the students’ difficulties, the revised Bloom’s Taxonomy theory was used to find the difficulties in factual, conceptual, procedural, and metacognitive knowledge. The results of research showed that 14.77% of students had difficulties in factual knowledge, 17.05% of students had difficulties in conceptual knowledge, 45.46% of students had difficulties in procedural knowledge, and 53.41% of students had difficulties in metacognitive knowledge. The factors that cause difficulties were experienced by students, such as: their sense in lack of time, carelessness, anxiety, giving up easily, and being hasty in doing the given problem.

Analysis of student difficulties in understanding the continuity of the function of differential calculus

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui jenis kesulitan mahasiswa dalam memahami materi kontinuitas fungsi pada mata kuliah kalkulus diferensial dan faktor penyebab kesulitan tersebut. Mahasiswa mengalami kesulitan dalam menentukan kontinuitas suatu fungsi pada interval tertentu. Subjek penelitian adalah 30 mahasiswa semester II kelas B1 Program Studi Pendidikan Matematika FKIP Universitas Muhammadiyah Tangerang (UMT). Penelitian ini adalah penelitian kualitatif dengan teknik pengumpulan data yaitu tes dan wawancara. Hasil penelitian diperoleh 3 jenis kesulitan mahasiswa dalam memahami kontinuitas, yaitu: (1) kesulitan dalam merumuskan garis bilangan; (2) kesulitan dalam melakukan pengujian kontinuitas; (3) kesulitan dalam menggambarkan sketsa grafik fungsi. Faktor penyebab dari kesulitan tersebut adalah (1) penguasaan terhadap konsep matematika dasar yang dipelajari di semester I diketahui kurang baik; (2) kurang mampu memahami makna dari pertanyaan dalam soal; (3) kurang memiliki waktu lebih sehingga dapat digunakan untuk mendalami materi yang dipelajari.

ANALISIS HASIL ASSESMEN DIAGNOSTIK KEMAMPUAN KOMUNIKASI MATEMATIKA SISWA PADA PEMBELAJARAN DIMENSI TIGA TIPE TPS KELAS X

This study aims to find out: the initial ability of students' mathematical communication; TPS type learning process accompanied by diagnostic analysis; analysis of student difficulties; effectiveness of TPS-type learning accompanied by diagnostic analysis; and students' mathematical communication skills after TPS type learning is accompanied by diagnostic analysis. The scope of the learning material in this study is the Three Dimensions for class X students. This type of research is mixed methods with concurrent embedded research designs. Qualitative methods as primary methods, while quantitative methods as secondary methods. Samples in qualitative research were taken by purposive sampling technique. Samples in quantitative research were taken by cluster random sampling technique. The research data was collected through questionnaires and written tests. Questionnaire data were analyzed descriptively qualitatively and test data were analyzed by proportion test, Uni Anova and Gain test. The results showed that 1) The initial ability of mathematical communication of students is still below the minimum completeness criteria. Student responses are low; 2) TPS type learning process accompanied by diagnostic analysis is carried out through three stages of think-pair-share; 3) TPS type learning accompanied by effective diagnostic analysis is evident from mathematical communication that achieves completeness, increases and is significantly better than the control group; 4) The difficulty of most students is not paying attention to the notation and not being careful in calculating; 5) Students' mathematical communication skills after TPS type learning accompanied by diagnostic analysis in the upper, middle and lower groups have been able to express mathematical ideas, have been able to draw according to the problems given and write mathematical notations are still lacking.

Analysis of Student Difficulties in Statistics Courses

The educational implementation is a learning process at all levels, students are required to follow certain lectures, including mathematics courses. Learning difficulties are a barrier to learning where children are not well educated, due to disturbances, both from student factors and external factors. learning, thus students are expected to catch up because of these obstacles. This research is classified into qualitative descriptive research that seeks to describe the analysis of student learning difficulties in statistical subjects. The subjects in this study were the fourth-semester students of 2018/2019 Mulawarman University. Research reveals things that are considered as a barrier factor for students in Statistics. In this study, the researcher collected information through documentation, tests, and interviews with students. The results of the analysis show that the difficulties of students in studying Statistics basically lie in the weakness of the concept. The results of the research conducted by the researcher were the existence of errors in process skills, errors in understanding questions, and errors in using notation. The solution to overcoming these problems is: for the eye teacher of Statistics to be able to develop learning strategies so that students can be more honed in their thinking skills and provide continuous problem training to students.

Analysis of Student Difficulties in Understanding The Concept of Newton's Law of Motion

The aim of this study is to investigate the difficulties experienced by students on the concept of Newton’s Law of Motion. The method used is descriptive analysis with a sample of 14 students who take Mechanics Course on Physics Education Study Porgram, Faculty of Teacher Training and Education of Samawa University. The data was collected by essai test. Based on the test result show that (1) students have difficulty in integrating mathematical equation. (2) students was unable to operated integration and differentiation related to trigonometric function. (3) students have not understood the concept of potential in conservative force field.

Development of geometry materials based on scientific approach for junior high school students

A scientific approach is a learning process designed so that learners can actively construct concepts, encourage learners to find out from various sources through observation, and not just be told. Therefore, learning by scientific approach offers a solution, because the goals, principles, and stages of the scientific approach allow for a good understanding of the students. Because of the absence of teaching materials “polyhedron geometry based on scientific approach” which is widely published in Indonesia, then we need to develop the teaching materials. The results obtained in this study are the tasks presented on teaching materials with a scientific approach both in defining the cube and the beam, identify and solve problems related to the properties and elements of cubes and beams, making cube and beam nets, solving problems related to cube and beam nets, solving problems related to cube and beam surface area. Beginning with the difficulties students face. Then, based on the results of interviews with teachers and analysis of student difficulties on each indicator, researchers revise the teaching materials as needed. Teaching materials that have not found any more student difficulties then the teaching materials are considered valid and ready for use by teachers and students.

Analysis of Student Difficulties in Computer Programming

Computer programming skills are required in mathematics computing courses. Most students have difficulty making computer programs. This study aims to identify the difficulties faced by students in making computer programs. This research is descriptive quantitative research. The subjects in this study are students of Mathematics Education Departement, Muhammadiyah University of Tangerang. Based on the results of data analysis, the conclusion is: (1) there are significant differences in multidimensional array material between high, medium and low group; (2) there is a significant difference in input / ouput command material between high, medium and low group; (3) there are significant differences about the difficulties experienced by students in understanding the basic concept of programming between high, medium and low groups; (4) there is a significant difference regarding the difficulties experienced by students in finding the fault of their own programs between high, medium and low groups; (5) there is no significant difference in situations that may assist students in programming for lab work in the high, medium and low groups; (6) there is no significant difference in situations that can assist students in programming to do alone tasks between high, medium and low groups; (7) there is no significant difference in the lack of examples shown when practice makes poor performance in programming between high, medium and low groups; (8) there is no significant difference in what makes poor performance in programming a less conducive atmosphere between high, medium and low groups.

Invariant Based Programming in Education - An Analysis of Student Difficulties

In this paper, we analyze the errors novice students make when developing invariant based programs. In addition to presenting the general error types, we also look at what students have difficulty with when it comes to expressing invariants. The results indicate that an introduc- tory course utilizing the invariant based approach is suitable from the very beginning of university studies in CS without being too advanced. Although inventing the invariant was not found to be trivial, the main difficulty faced by novices when applying a correct-by-construction approach to program development seems to be related to weak skills in translating intuitive and informal statements into a symbolic form using logical notation in general and quantifiers in particular.

Scholarly Dimensions of Academics' Beliefs about Engineering Education

The educational beliefs of seven mechanical engineering academics are examined in the context of their department and the history of the engineering education. Despite commonalities at one level, key differences were found among the academics' educational beliefs about the nature of the profession, learning goals for students, teaching approaches, and their analysis of student difficulties. Illustrative case examples are included. It is concluded that the faculty beliefs found in this department of mechanical engineering recapitulate major developments in and professional differences about the field. Implications for research on teaching and educational development are discussed.

Commonalities and controversy in context: a study of academic historians’ educational beliefs

The educational beliefs of eight academic historians are examined in the context of their department, the university and the history of the discipline. Similarities among the academics about goals for history education; perceptions of students; roles as teachers; and classroom patterns are discussed. Despite commonalities at one level, key differences were found among the academics’ educational beliefs about the nature of the discipline; learning goals for students; teaching approaches; and their analysis of student difficulties. It is concluded that educational beliefs are linked to scholarly conceptions of the field and recapitulate major developments and scholarly differences in the discipline.