Profil Kemampuan Berpikir Komputasional (Computational Thinking) Siswa SMP Negeri Se-Kota Semarang Tahun 2022

Abstract

This study aims to determine the profile of the mastery of computational thinking skills of State Junior High School students throughout the city of Semarang with the benefit of being a benchmark for innovation or development of learning models oriented to mastering the computational thinking skills of State Junior High School students in the city of Semarang. This research was conducted in 15 public junior high schools in the city of Semarang on March 25, 2022 - April 30, 2022. The sample in the study amounted to 15 public junior high schools from a population of 45 public junior high schools in the city of Semarang. Data were taken using a free test instrument to measure students' computational thinking skills and teacher questionnaires to obtain information related to learning science in schools. The free test is given online via google form and offline using a question sheet. The total respondents were 328 students as the research sample. The result of this research is that the profile of mastery of computational thinking skills of State Junior High School students in Semarang city gets a score of 54.97. Based on the results of the study, it can be concluded that students' computational thinking skills are in the medium category and there are still students who have not been able to solve problems with computational thinking skills, namely abstraction, generalization, pattern recognition, decomposition, and algorithms.Keywords: Computational Thinking, Bebras task, Science Learning for State Junior High Schools of Semarang city

Developing STEM-PjBL worksheet to lift students' critical, creative, and computational thinking skill

“…critical thinking, communication, creative thinking, and collaboration skills. Computational thinking skills are included in the 5 Cs, previously only 4C because they are needed to improve students' skills in solving complex problems (Azmi & Ummah, 2021;Nuvitalia et al, 2022;Sa'diyyah, 2021). The development of 21st-Century education requires creative, critical, and computational thinking skills.…”

STEM-PjBL Worksheet : Ways to Improve Students' Collaboration, Creativity, and Computational Thinking

“…Some researchers say that PjBL has a syntax that can support contextual learning and 21st century skills (Afriana et al, 2016;Ardiansyah et al, 2020;Avery & Reeve, 2013;Reeve, 2011). Furthermore, STEM has also been heavily integrated with PjBL through systematic project completion of contextual problems that occur daily (Lou et al, 2017;Ngoh, 2013;Tseng et al, 2013). The completion of the project is carried out according to student worksheets designed by the teacher and specifically aimed at improving students' 21st century skills.…”

Computational thinking ability becomes a predictor of mathematical critical thinking ability

“…Research by Nuvitalia et al (2022) in ninth-grade students showed that the level of students' mathematical critical thinking ability was in the medium category with a presentation of abstraction of 56.19%, generalization of 58.73%, pattern recognition of 46.03%, decomposition of 53.24%, and algorithms of 51.74%. In addition, research conducted by Paf and Dincer (2021) found that students' computational thinking skills had a favourable and concrete relationship to creative problem-solving abilities.…”

“…Students demonstrated high-level problem-solving abilities by compiling steps to tackle the same difficulties. According toNuvitalia et al (2022), thinking algorithms write automated solutions through algorithmic thinking or sequential steps. The last percentage achieved by the pattern recognition indicator reached 65%.…”