Do Physics Textbooks Present the Ideas of Thought Experiments?: A Case in Indonesia

Efforts to developing the quality of education is empowering educators. Positive activities that accommodate teachers to improve the quality of education are the activities of the Community of Practice (CoP). Community of Practice (CoP) or KKG in Indonesia Context is a forum for professional development for primary school teachers, and one of which is improving teacher performance. The effectiveness of the CoP really needs to be studied in depth. Therefore, a study was conducted on the role of CoP in improving the performance of primary school teachers in Riau Province. The method is a quantitative descriptive study, which describes the role of CoP activities in improving teacher performance in Riau through quantitative data. The research was carried out in May-August 2020. The participant was elementary schools’ teachers in Riau Province. The data source is the primary school teachers totalling 60 people. Data collection techniques using a questionnaire. Based on the results and discussion, it can be concluded that there are several roles of CoP activities in improving teacher performance, among others: through CoP teachers can discuss in construct learning tools, teachers were able to arrange lesson plans for active learning based on analysis of student needs, learning materials are arranged based on various learning sources, using media active learning, analysing evaluation test and conducting assessments according to active learning and student abilities.

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“…Curriculum development in accordance with the times. It is proven that the 2013 Curriculum can improve skills, attitudes and knowledge [32].…”

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The Important of the Community of Practice (CoP) in Improving the Primary School Teachers’ Performance in Riau Province

Hermita

Wijaya

Fauza

et al. 2021

Jurnal Ilmiah Pendidikan Dasar

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“…This is in line with Abrahams & Millar (2008) that students could develop their thinking skills through scientific works. Moreover, Bancong & Song (2018) stated that experimental learning applied in Indonesia fully intends to improve the analytical thinking skills. In addition, Schuster et al (2018) elucidated that efficient science learning will be achieved if students master the concepts.…”

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The Influence of Scientific Independence towards Students’ Content Analysis and Science Process Skills on Cell Metabolism Topic

Ekawati¹,

Iswari

Lisdiana

2018

JPII

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Students commonly judge that cell metabolism topic is arduous since they only listen to their teacher and memorizing concept without a deep comprehension. Other than that, a direct explanation could not enhance the students' science process skills. Thus, this research intended to analyze the differences of the content-analysis and science process skills between the students experiencing a learning that oriented to scientific independence (experimental class) and those joining a direct learning (control class). The materials taught in both classes were cell metabolism. This study employed the quantitative of the quasi-experimental method. The research object was the students learning Biology. The students joining a scientific independence-based class were able to answer questions requiring analytical thinking. The relationship of the students' scientific independence towards the content analysis and science process skills was seen on the test. Based upon the statistical data analysis, the correlation significance was 0,038<0,05. Therefore, it concluded that there was a very significant correlation between the students' scientific independence towards the content analysis and science process skills.

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“…The present study is a case study that used a descriptive-analytical method that identifies and reflects trends and variations in populations, creating new measures of crucial phenomena, identifying causal effects, and descriptive analyses are part of almost every empirical paper and report. (Loeb et al, 2017;Bancong & Song, 2018). The subjects of this study were 60 elementary school teachers from Boyolali city, Indonesia, who had minimum teaching experience for five years and were selected using purposive sampling techniques.…”

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The Quality of HOTS-Based Science Questions Developed by Indonesian Elementary School Teachers

Ishartono

Desstya

Prayitno

et al. 2021

JET

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In Indonesia, several training pieces have been conducted to develop HOTS-based science questions for elementary school teachers. However, few studies examine how elementary school teachers developed HOTS-based science questions. Hence, the current study is a case study that aims to analyze HOTS-based science questions developed by elementary school teachers in Indonesia. This study employed a descriptive-analytical method by analyzing 60 HOTS-based science questions developed by elementary school teachers. This study involved two raters from one of Indonesia's universities, who are experts in assessing learning for elementary school level to assess the questions. The aspects that are assessed are aspects of conformity with HOTS questions criteria, conformity with the criteria of thinking ability of elementary school students, and conformity with the quality of good questions. This study's findings show that many problems do not meet the first aspect, especially at non-algorithmic points, multiple ways, and multiple interpretations. Next, in the second aspect, most of the question does not use illustration to strengthen the developed question's information. The third aspect is a relatively fulfilled aspect by most developed questions. However, only a few developed questions are judged not to meet this aspect. Hopefully, this study's findings can be an evaluation material for policymakers in education to increase the training quality of HOTS-based science questions for elementary school level in Indonesia.

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Do Physics Textbooks Present the Ideas of Thought Experiments?: A Case in Indonesia

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The Important of the Community of Practice (CoP) in Improving the Primary School Teachers’ Performance in Riau Province

The Important of the Community of Practice (CoP) in Improving the Primary School Teachers’ Performance in Riau Province

The Influence of Scientific Independence towards Students’ Content Analysis and Science Process Skills on Cell Metabolism Topic

The Quality of HOTS-Based Science Questions Developed by Indonesian Elementary School Teachers

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