The Analysis of Generic Science Skills of High School Students

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10.2991/ictte-17.2017.48How to use a DOI?

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generic science skills; high school students

Abstract

The success of increasing students' understanding in science can be measured by the students' basic ability while they are in the learning process. This basic ability is known as generic science skills. Generic science skills are the combination between science knowledge and skills. The purpose of this study is to analyze the generic science skills of high school students. This study was conducted at one of the State Madrasah Aliyah in Surakarta academic year 2016/2017. The objects of this study were 81 students of 11th grades in State Madrasah Aliyah 1 Surakarta. This study used descriptive quantitative design. The data were obtained through generic science skills test that contains of generic science skills' indicators. The generic science skills' indicators are direct and indirect observations, scale awareness, symbolic language, logical framework, logical consistency, causality, mathematical modeling, concept constructing, and abstraction. The result of study shows that the generic science skills of high school students get score 53.43% and it is still low.

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© 2017, 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  - Elok Khabibah
AU  - Mohammad Masykuri
AU  - Mr Maridi
PY  - 2017/10
DA  - 2017/10
TI  - The Analysis of Generic Science Skills of High School Students
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Teacher Training and Education 2017 (ICTTE 2017)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 434
EP  - 439
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/ictte-17.2017.48
DO  - 10.2991/ictte-17.2017.48
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