Application Of Process Skills Research Articles

Using Youtube in Training Process Skills Through Student Self-Practice

The 2013 curriculum prioritizes education in developing student competencies which include knowledge and skills, one of the skills is process skills. The application of process skills with the subject of grade VII, amounting to 15 students in science learning at MTs At-Taufiq Jombang through discovery learning models in independent practicum activities has never been assessed. This study aims to determine the relationship between process skills and student cognitive learning outcomes through the solar system practicum learning. The type of research used in this study is a pre-experimental design with a One-case study, where the test is given after the treatment. Data collection was carried out through interviews, observations, and questionnaires on the performance of students' process skills. The data obtained were then analyzed statistically using the product moment correlation test formula using SPSS 25. The significant value between process skills and cognitive learning outcomes shows the product moment coefficient value is 0.445. Based on these criteria, the relationship between the two variables is not significant. That is, there is no relationship between process skills and student cognitive learning outcomes. However, if it is seen from the correlation value between process skills and learning outcomes, it is obtained a value of 0.214 which means that the relationship is very low (0.20-0.399)

An Investigation of the Effect of Students' Academic Achievement and Science Process Skills Application Together With Cooperative Learning Model and the Modeling Based Teaching Method in Teaching Science Courses

The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of the applying the cooperative learning model and the modeling based teaching method together in teaching the subjects “Matter and Heat” and “The Particle Structure and Properties of Matter” on students’ academic achievement and science process skills. A quasi-experimental design with a pretest-posttest comparative group was used. In the sixth grade, the learning together (LT) method was applied with control group, the learning together and modeling-based teaching methods (LT-MBT) together was applied with the study group. In the seventh grade, the group investigation (GI) method was applied with the control group, and group investigation and modeling based teaching methods (GI-MBT) together was applied with study group. 72 sixth-grade students and 64 seventh-grade students of a public secondary school took part in the research. Data was collected for prior knowledge tests, module tests, academic achievement tests, science process skills, the cooperative learning view scale, and the method views form. According to the results obtained, students applying the GI-MBT method in seventh grade learned better and showed greater improvement in their science process skills than students in other group. Students applying LT-MBT methods in sixth grade were better than students applying the LT method in the module tests. According to the results obtained, it can be said that the modeling based teaching method made positive contributions to the cooperative learning model. It should be applied together with MBT with different methods of cooperative learning model in science education.

Process Skills Application and Higher Order Thinking Skills among Biology Students in Colleges of Education in Southwestern Nigeria

The study determined the level of Process Skills Application (PSA) and utilization of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) among Biology students in colleges of education in southwestern Nigeria as well as the relationship between the PSA and HOTS of Biology students in colleges of education in the study area. The population comprised of all Biology students in colleges of education in southwestern Nigeria. One hundred students were selected from each of two federal colleges and three state colleges of education in the study area making a total of five hundred students. Thirty students were randomly selected for observation for process skills application of the students. The study revealed that there was a moderate level of PSA while the utilization of HOTS among the respondent was low. It was also revealed that there was no significant relationship between process skill application and higher order thinking skills (r=0.10, p>0.05) of Biology students in the study area.

Process skills application and scientific attitudes of Biology students in colleges of education in southwestern Nigeria

West African Examination Council results have continued to reveal Nigeria’s high school students’ poor performance in Science subjects, and especially, in practical science (WAEC 2014). The students’ demonstration of essential scientific attitudes is noted to be deficient. This is possibly caused by ineffective teaching and learning produced by the absence of necessary practical classes. This study, therefore, assessed the process skills application and scientific attitudes of Biology students in colleges of education in southwestern Nigeria as well as the relationship between the two variables. These groups of variables are central to students developing skills and knowledge in science and a determination of levels of competence in them would facilitate appropriate interventions to improve teaching and learning of science. The study adopted descriptive research survey design. The population for the study included all Biology students in colleges of education in southwestern Nigeria. From the four federal and seven state colleges of education in southwestern Nigeria, two federal colleges of education and three state colleges of education were randomly selected to ensure adequate representation of the two school categories. One hundred Biology students were randomly selected from each of the two school categories. Two instruments were used for the study. These were Biology Process Skill Application Rating Scale (BPSARS) and Biology Scientific Attitude Questionnaire (BSAQ). A reliability value of 0.72 for BPSARS and 0.76 for BSAQ was gotten using Cronbach alpha coefficient. The result revealed that there existed a moderate application of process skills and a moderate level of scientific attitude among the respondents as 67.3% and 84.8% having a moderate level of process skills application and scientific attitude respectively. It was shown that there was no significant relationship between the process skill application and scientific attitude (r=0.09, p>0.05) of respondents in the study area

THE ROLE OF PROCESS SKILLS APPROACH TO IMPROVE CRITICAL THINKING AND STUDENT LEARNING ACHIEVEMENT

This study aims to (1) describe the application of the process skills approach in improving students' critical thinking, (2) describe the application of the process skills approach in increasing student achievement, (3) describe the effectiveness of the application of the process skills approach in improving student learning achievement. This research was carried out using Classroom Action Research (CAR) and quasi-experimental. The data collection method in this study used an observation sheet to measure the teacher's ability to apply the Process Skills approach and students' critical thinking abilities, as well as a test to measure student learning achievement improvement. For data analysis, the analysis used mean score analysis and t-test. Based on the results of research conducted in three cycles in class XII IPA 1, this research resulted in the following conclusions: (1) The application of the process skills approach can improve students' critical thinking skills, (2) The application of the process skills approach can improve student achievement, (3) The application of process skills effectively improves student achievement in Biology subjects

Determination of the Relation between Undergraduate Students’ Awareness Levels Regarding Their Scientific Process Skills and Application Potentials

Scientific process skills are those that facilitate learning in science, allow students to be active, improve the sense of responsibility for their own learning, increase their retention skills and also show routes and methods of research. The measurement tool used to measure undergraduate students’ science process skills is a test consisting of 26 questions. This test covers identifying and checking basic skills and variables such as observation, classification, measurement, communication, and prediction using space-time relationships, and integrated process skills such as inference, operational definition, making the interpretation of data and hypotheses and conducting experiments. According to Bloom’s taxonomy of cognitive development, questions also knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation aspects. This study, by expediently electing among the education faculties in Turkey, was conducted with 165 undergraduate students from different departments at Faculty of Education of a big university in the Eastern Anatolia province, Turkey to determine the relationship between undergraduate students’ awareness levels regarding scientific process skills and application potential, using survey method which is an implementation of non-experimental quantitative research methods. In the science process skills tests (SPST) prepared for this purpose; the effect of students’ demographic characteristics (grade level, branch, academic achievement, and learning environment) on these skills were studied and results, using SPSS 18.0 software package with an analysis of variance (ANOVA), were statistically evaluated. Of these assessment results; it has been concluded that the difference in levels of awareness of the students lead to significant differences in terms of science process skills application potential, however, other variables and demographic characteristics do not lead to significant differences.