Thinking Styles of Seventh Grade Students and the Effect on Misconception

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10.2991/ictte-18.2018.17How to use a DOI?

Keywords

reflective thinking style; impulsive thinking style; quickly precise thinking styles; slowly imprecise thinking styles; misconception

Abstract

Misconception can happen in students because of several factors. The existence of misconception makes students wrong in constructing knowledge that will be continue to the next level of education. One of the factors that can lead misconception is thinking style of students. There are four types of thinking styles based on conceptual tempo. They are reflective, impulsive, quick but careful, and slow but not careful that can be identified using Matching Familiar Figure Test (MFFT). This study aims to identify thinking styles of seventh grade students. The method used in this research was survey method. Data was collected by the test in three schools with high, medium, and low grades. The results showed that there were 62 students with reflective thinking styles, there were 10 students with impulsive thinking styles, there were 2 students that quickly precise thinking styles, and there were 6 students that slowly imprecise thinking styles. This research can be used as a reference to identify student’s misconceptions in certain subjects.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Maya Pamungkas
AU  - Sulistyo Saputro
AU  - Sri Mulyani
PY  - 2018/09
DA  - 2018/09
TI  - Thinking Styles of Seventh Grade Students and the Effect on Misconception
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Teacher Training and Education 2018 (ICTTE 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 105
EP  - 107
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/ictte-18.2018.17
DO  - 10.2991/ictte-18.2018.17
ID  - Pamungkas2018/09
ER  -