Assimilation (Mar 2023)
THE EFFECT OF THE PRE-LABORATORY JOURNAL ON THE EVALUATING AND DESIGNING SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY SKILLS AND SOCIO-EMOTIONAL OF HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS
Abstract
The implementation of face-to-face learning policies after more than two years of the COVID-19 pandemic requires adjustment efforts by teachers and students, particularly related to practicum and the process of scientific inquiry. One of the efforts to help students to be better prepared for the practicum is by making a pre-laboratory journal. The purpose of this study was to analyze the effect of the pre-laboratory journal on evaluating and designing scientific inquiry skills and socio-emotional of high school students. The type of research used is a quasi-experimental design using a pretest-posttest control group design. The sampling technique used cluster random sampling. This study involved 70 students of 11th grade students consisting of 35 students of control class and 35 students of experimental class at Senior High School 1 Cisarua, West Bandung. The instrument used consisted of 5 items of skill description tests to evaluate and design scientific inquiry on the material of the human excretory system which were part of the scientific literacy framework based on PISA (2018) and 15 questions of a socio-emotional questionnaire adapted from Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire (MSLQ) instrument. The results showed that the skills of evaluating and designing scientific inquiry of high school students in the experimental class and the control class were significantly different (sig. 0.00 <0.05). The average N-gain for the control class was 0.53 which was included in the medium category and the experimental class was 0.71 which was included in the high category. Meanwhile, based on the results of the Mann-Whitney test, it was found that pre-laboratory journaling had a significant effect on students' anxiety levels during tests (sig. 0.00 <0.05) and anxiety during practicum (sig. 0.00 <0.05). That is, the anxiety level of the control class students increased more than the experimental class. So, it was concluded that the making of pre-laboratory journals had a significant effect on the skills of evaluating and designing scientific inquiry and socio-emotional of high school students.
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