A Preliminary Study on Grade X Students’ Problem-Solving Skills as the 21st Century Skills in Biology Course

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10.2991/978-2-38476-245-3_2How to use a DOI?

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Problem-Solving Skills; 21st Century Learning; Biology Course

Abstract

Problem-solving skills are essential skills to face the demands of the 21st century. Problem-solving skills help students to think reflectively in conceptualizing and understanding problems, designing to find the solutions, implementing solutions as well as evaluating the effectiveness of solutions used to solve problems. This study aimed to investigate the problem-solving skills of grade X students at SMA Negeri 1 Majene West Sulawesi on biodiversity and virus topic. A survey was conducted on 123 participants for one month. The data were collected through a problem-solving skills test which adapted from indicator of Greenstein (2012), consisting of 16 questions and then analyzed descriptively. The results showed that the percentage of average score on each problem-solving indicator, which sorted from the lowest category to the highest category; a very low category in the indicator of the applies problem-solving steps (49.09), implement solutions to the real-world applications (49.09) and evaluating solutions (49.70). A low category in the indicator of deductive reasoning (51.12), defending solutions (52.44), identifying the problem (52.85), inductive reasoning (53.56), identifying solutions (55.89). When they are counted as an overall score, the average value of students’ problem-solving skills (51.71) was in the low category. Our results indicated that the learning activities might not be problem-solving oriented, which further could not make students act as active learners. Therefore, more efforts are needed to improve students’ problem-solving skills, one of which is through the application of certain learning strategies or models that can improve students’ problem-solving skills.

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AU  - Muh. Wahyudi Jasman
AU  - Sulisetijono
AU  - Susriyati Mahanal
PY  - 2024
DA  - 2024/05/20
TI  - A Preliminary Study on Grade X Students’ Problem-Solving Skills as the 21st Century Skills in Biology Course
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Current Issues in Education (ICCIE 2023)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 4
EP  - 12
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-38476-245-3_2
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-38476-245-3_2
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