Enhancing elementary teachers’ science process skills through participatory scientific approach training

Abstract

Science learning emphasizes providing direct experience to students through the process of experimental discovery. For this reason, teachers must have scientific process skills in order to design 21st Century science learning that is able to foster scientific attitudes and scientific products in elementary students. This study aims to improve the science process skills of elementary school teachers through Participatory Scientific Approach Training. This study involved 35 teachers who are actively teaching in Surakarta. The study was conducted in two cycles with each cycle consisting of plan, observe, and reflect stages. Data collection techniques are done using observation and performance tests on integrated science process skills. Performance test indicators include variable control skills, data interpretation, hypothesis formulation, operationally defining variables, designing experiments. Data analyzed descriptively and content analysis. The results showed that the application of Participatory Scientific Approach Training had a positive impact on improving the quality of processes and results. The improvement in the process is shown in the increase in the activities of the teachers in the experimental activities. As for the increase in results shown in the increase in scores of all aspects of the science process skills of teachers in the first cycle by 13.04%, and in the second cycle again increased by 12.23%. The smallest improvement was in the aspects of designing experiments, where the teacher had not been able to make experimental designs that were procedural and had parameters.

Pengintegrasian Nilai Karakter Cinta Tanah Air dalam Pembelajaran Tematik di SD

“…Di tengah perubahan global dan dinamika sosial, nilai-nilai karakter menjadi landasan kuat bagi individu dan masyarakat. Dalam ranah pendidikan formal, SD menjadi fondasi awal bagi pembentukan karakter anak-anak (Alves, 2018;Poerwanti, 2021;Rintayati, 2020;Supa'At Supa'At, 2023). Oleh karena itu, mengintegrasikan nilai karakter Cinta Tanah Air dalam kurikulum SD menjadi langkah strategis untuk membentuk generasi penerus yang memiliki rasa cinta dan tanggung jawab terhadap negara.…”

Validation of an instrument for assessing basic science process skills in initial elementary teacher education

“…Consequently, science education demands, from an early age, explicit attention to SPSs and should therefore occupy a prominent place in PET training plans (Abd Rauf et al, 2013;Rintayati et al, 2020). Because the number of SPSs to be addressed in science education is quite broad, in this study we prioritised those that are most emphasised in the latest curricular prescriptions for basic science education in Spain (Royal Decrees 95/2022 and 157/2022).…”

“…Most of them have been conducted in the context of inquiry-based science education (e.g., Abell et al, 2006;Newman et al, 2004;García-Carmona et al, 2017) and reveal that PETs have quite a few limitations in the performance of SPSs. Thus, PETs have difficulties in identifying and controlling variables (Aydoğdu et al, 2014;Criado et al, 2019;Montero-Pau et al, 2017;Rintayati et al, 2020), formulating researchable questions (Cruz-Guzmán et al, 2017), posing scientific hypotheses (García-Carmona, 2020a;Yoon et al, 2012) and planning school inquiries to test them (García-Carmona et al, 2017). PETs also have shortcomings in making measurements (García-Carmona, 2019) and inferring (Aydoğdu et al, 2014;Chabalengula et al, 2012) in the context of a school scientific inquiry.…”

Explicit Teaching of Science Process Skills: Learning Outcomes and Assessments of Pre-service Science Teachers

“…Following a literature review, it is seen that the SPSs of pre-service teachers and teachers need to be improved (Aktaş & Ceylan, 2016;Cañete et al, 2017;Duruk et al, 2017;Rintayati et al, 2020). Furthermore, it is also revealed that the teachers' basic knowledge on SPSs are higher than their integrated knowledge (Swe & Oo, 2018).…”