Psychological responses from students to learning in each course are significant. This psychological response can be in the form of students’ perceptions, interests, and attitudes towards the material and learning process in a course. This study discusses how psychological responses include perceptions,...

The use of instructional media that suits students’ needs becomes a problem in biology learning in high school, especially in protist material. This is because the teacher is not skilled in getting and developing media to support learning that suits students’ needs. Although suitable learning media are...

This research is a descriptive study conducted in April in grade X language class interest in biology at SMAN 1 V Koto Kampung Dalam Padang Pariaman 2018/2019 academic year. The sampling technique is simple random sampling. The research instrument used MI Questionnaire specializing in three intelligences,...

Instruction in the 2013 Curriculum emphasizes more in students’ activeness in looking for information and knowledge. However, based on the questionnaire spread in one school which has been implemented the 2013 Curriculum, it is known that students tend to be passive in learning, especially in asking...

Multiple intelligences is one of the theories of intelligences got a lot of recognition lately. This theory was created by Howard Gardner, a psychologist from Harvard. At first Gardner found seven types of intelligence but then develop it into eight, and discuss the possibility of intelligence ninth....

The difficulties faced by the students in studying protista and fungi materials based on the result of the interview were in understanding the life cycle, finding and observing the species objects. This type of research was a design and development by using the Plomp model. This study was aimed at finding...

Students have difficilty in understanding the topic of respiration and excretion system because the topics are memorized, altough the topics are very close to life, so students need a module that can help them in finding concepts base on problems that are close to life. The modules had used in the school...

The purpose of this study was to determine of problems in biology learning at SMPN 15 Kerinci. The study was conducted in January 2019. This type of research is quasi experimental research. The population was students in grade of SMPN 15 Kerinci registered in academic year 2018/2019. For the sample because...

The university has an important role in preparing the nation’s generation to take Indonesia’s demographic bonus in 2020-2035 in the industrial revolution 4.0. The effort needed to take the demographic bonus is to apply biotechnology lectures that are integrated with entrepreneurship education. The lecture...

This textbook was designed to facilitate readers in obtaining information regarding bioremediation research. Bioremediation is one of the environment-friendly solutions that utilize microorganisms to overcome increasing pollution. The integration of the results of bioremediation research in textbooks...

Learning is interaction process between student with teacher and learning resources in a learning environment. So, the important factor to push a student to get a success in learning process is learning resources. One example of a printed learning resources that can be used in the learning process is...

This research purpose is to describe the science literacy skill of Manjushri Junior High School students in Padang. This research used descriptive method. This research is conducted at Manjushri Junior High School in Padang with class VIII students as sample that was determined by purposive sampling....

Purposes of the research were to know the effect of cooperative learning model type of Group Investigation and entry behavior on students’ Biology cognitive competence and to investigate interaction between learning model and entry behavior towards students’ cognitive competence learning outcomes in...

Initial investigations obtained reference data used by students so far have been taken from microbiology books with a long publication year. Based on the results of the questionnaire, the students felt the benefits of studying microbiology in daily life, but the student references did not support because...

21st century education aims to improve students’ scientific literacy skills. The results of PISA study show that the scientific literacy of Indonesian students is in low category. The low scientific literacy of students is caused by several factors in education system, both from the curriculum, teachers,...

The results of observations obtained in VIII classes of SMP Negeri 5 Bukittinggi City showed that the students’ affective competence was still low. The efforts that can be made to overcome these problems are to use Sheet PowerPoint on Mind Map in learning. This research aims at determining the effect...

Animal ecology is a part of biological science that involves interactions between animals and their environment. In the process of learning it requires correlation with observation activities in the practicum process. in the implementation of the Practicum, a practical guide is needed. The purpose of...

This research is based on students lack of motivation in learning teaching process, learning style, and learning mehod is not quite effective for implementation, teacher-centered learning teaching process, and also students achievement is still low. The purpose of this research is to identify the effect...

Critical thinking (CT) is one of the essential twenty-first-century competencies that need to be empowered. The development of students’ critical thinking (CT) can be assessed using the Illinois Critical Thinking Essay Test (ICTE Test). However, due to the constant use of multiple evaluation items at...

The purpose of this study was to determine the improvement of knowledge competencies, attitude competencies and skills competencies of students by using a guided inquiry model. The research subjects were class X MIA MAN 3 Kota Padang Panjang. The data analysis used in this study is qualitative analysis...

Initial investigations obtained reference data used by the students so far have been taken from a microbiology book with a long publication year. Based on the results of the questionnaire, the students felt the benefits of studying microbiology in daily life, but the students’ references did not support...

The 2013 curriculum is learning curriculum that emphasizes higher-order thinking skills, besides learning activities also by training students with questions based on high-level thinking skills, namely by Trends in International Mathematics and Sciences Study (TIMSS). The application of high-level thinking...

During the learning process, teachers have not used workbooks, books used in the learning process, namely books borrowed from the library and Student Worksheets (LKS). LKS used by the teacher has several weaknesses such as the images presented are unclear and have unattractive colors. In addition, the...

Our research to apply learning project based entrepreneurship to high school students. The research method is weak experiment. The sample used in this study were 1 class taken using cluster random sampling. The instrument used in this study was the assessment of student performance. The results of the...

Changes in the world are now entering the era of industrial revolution 4.0 (IR 4.0) where information technology has become the basis in human life. Based on the initial evaluation, Indonesia is estimated as a country with high potential in facing IR 4.0. Nevertheless, education 4.0 is a response to...

This study aims at determining students’ misconceptions in the microbiology subject. The object of this study was the biology students at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Universitas negeri Padang (UNP) who took the microbiology subject in 2018/2019 school year. The number of students...

This research was motivated by the learning difficulties experienced by students in the Microbiology Subject that caused their learning competence to be relatively low. This research aims at describing the factors that caused learning difficulties experienced by UNP biology students in the Microbiology...

This research began with unsatisfactory biology learning outcomes. This is due to students having not mastered the subject matter, there needs to be a solution so that students get good learning outcomes. The inquiry learning model is used by adjusting the 2013 curriculum which gives students the opportunity...

The purpose of this study was to determine the increase of student learning activities by applying an active learning model using card sort method in biology subjects. The type of this research is classroom action research conducted in two cycles. Each cycle consists of four stages, namely: plan, action,...

Twenty-first-century skills encompass science literacy, competencies, and character qualities. Science literacy is one of the basic literacy skills that play a significant role in modern society, where people have to deal with advanced science and technology. Science literacy can be promoted in university...

This study aims to determine the increase in student cognitive learning outcomes by using the Guided Inquiry learning model assisted by LKPD. The involvement of students in the implementation of the science learning process at SMPN 6 Padangsidimpuan is very lacking. This can be seen from the low average...

The aims of this study was to describe of effective of plant morphology practicum guide book was oriented guided inquiry at the third semester of students of Biology Department of IPTS Padangsidimpuan. This type of research is the development of research. The development models used in this study is...

Based on the observations at class X students and teachers of SMA Negeri 1 Rengat indicate that the teaching materials used in learning biology have several shortcomings such as language that is difficult to understand, topics and assessment instruments that are not in accordance with the indicators...

In the learning practice process is guided to think scientifically while the guide is used has not directed students to think scientifically, the demands of scientific thinking are expected to improve student achievement. Therefore it is necessary to develop a practicum guide to overcome these problems,...

Education intends to develop the potential of students into quality human resources, to achieve this goal the government has endeavored through the establishment of various regulations to ensure that every citizen gets a quality education. The application or implementation of the curriculum can be seen...

Based on the analysis that has been done on daily test questions, it is found that the level of questions given to students is at the level of C1 to C3. Levels C1 to C3 are still at the LOST level, so it is not in accordance with the demands of the curriculum to analyze. Interviews were also conducted...

There are still many problems that arise in the learning process, starting from the lack of teacher attention to the entry behavior of students and the lack of selection of the learning model applied by the teacher, so that it tends to be monotonous. Based on these problems, it is necessary to have an...

This study aims to describe the increase in activities and student learning outcomes with the implementation of KWL (Know-Want-Learned) strategy through the campus active bowling models. This classroom action research was conducted in two cycles. Each cycle consists of 4 stages, namely planning, action,...

As many as 78% of students, the subject of animal development is one of the complicated subjects to understand and requires a more detailed explanation in their understanding. However, biology students on 2019 at Padang University there are who still do not have a handbook in learning animal development,...

Referring to the data in the preparation stage, students find it difficult to understand the concept of subject matter. The concept can be understood by constructing initial knowledge with newly acquired knowledge. The stages of constructing the concept are in the integrated constructivism approach in...

The objective of education is essentially delivering learners to a change of conduct of both moral intellectual, and social to live independently. Successfull education have depend on the learning process. To achieve educational objectives necessary active role teachers who understand and implementing...

Biology topics must develop thoughts, skills, and understanding of students towards concept. In learning the implementation independent concept needed a teaching materials designed specifically that can be studied by learners independently. One way is to improve student ability to solve problems in accordance...

Learning is a scientific process, therefore learning should be carried out in accordance with scientific methods, in the curriculum of 2013 known as a scientific approach. In learning, a scientific approach consists of five activities, namely: observing, asking questions, gathering information, associating...

The curriculum 2013 requires students to have High Order Thinking Skills. Nowadays, however, The High Order Thinking Skills of students especially in Indonesia are still low. It is caused by many factors, such as the unavailability of HOTS-based worksheet at school. For instance, in SMPN 1 Padang, there...

The purpose of this research is to describe the effectiveness of learning devices based on RME approaches, improving students ‘ mathematical problem-solving skills through a developed RME-based learning tools, and student response to RME-based learning devices developed for high school class X learners....

Students’ low ability in mathematical problem solving can still be found by the researcher in the field. This can be seen in the implementation of learning at school, students are not get used to solved the problem appropriately. Some problem solving indicators are not found during students solved the...

Biology learning at Senior Pekanbaru wich dominated by the teachers, less variated method and student initial ability rarely noticed by teachers lead to low of student learning competence. It proved by student learning competence average score still below minimum standard score. One of the ways to solve...