Problem Solving Skill

What is the Difference between Practitioners and Experts?

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.201230.196How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Problem solving skill, Perception, Practitioners, Expert

Abstract

Problem-solving is an important skill for students so that it should be an important element of learning design at every level of education. This study has a goal to analyze the perceptions of practitioners (novice) and experts about problem-solving skills. A total of 10 experts and 53 practitioners who are teachers or lecturers in science (biology, physics, chemistry) and mathematics education were recruited as the subjects of the study. The data were collected through open-ended questionnaires using Google Form and analyzed descriptively. It was found that practitioners and experts share the same idea about the definition and importance of problem-solving skills. The difference is that practitioners mainly view that problem-solving skills can be provided more with the daily life of students, while experts view that these skills can be provided with engineered problems. Both also have different choices of learning models. Practitioners tend to choose a familiar model with a syntax of solving a problem by the students, while experts choose more than one model. They think that various existing models and the teacher’s ability to design the implementation in learning are needed to provide problem-solving skills. Practitioners view that problem-solving skills are important but difficult to teach because of the time and the students’ inadequate prerequisite skills to do the learning. The results of this study can be a reference in developing the learning curriculum for pre-service science and mathematics teachers in the future

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© 2021, 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  - Ismet
AU  - Nyimas Aisyah
AU  - Effendi Nawawi
AU  - Muhamad Yusuf
AU  - Meilinda
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/01/02
TI  - Problem Solving Skill
BT  - Proceedings of the 4th Sriwijaya University Learning and Education International Conference (SULE-IC 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 775
EP  - 780
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.201230.196
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.201230.196
ID  - 2021
ER  -