DEVELOPMENT OF KASUARI SOFTWARE PACKAGE FOR PHYISCS TEACHING AT HIGHSCHOOL

• Main Author: SANTOSO (NIM 20206034), LUKMAN
• Format: Theses
• Language: Indonesia
• Online Access: https://digilib.itb.ac.id/gdl/view/10824
• Institution: Institut Teknologi Bandung

Physics teaching at high school is intended to provide a foundation for sciences and technology. In reality, quality of physics teaching at high school level is far from satisfactory, especially at topics that required higher level of imagination and abstraction, such as magnetic field and electromagnetic induction. As a result, many students acquire a misconception on these topics. To solve this problem, software package called Kasuari is developed. This tool is a computer-based physics teaching media stored in a compact-disc (CD). This package contains materials on magnetic field and electromagnetic induction that supplemented by picture, demonstration videos, and animation. These supplements are intended to help the students in understanding the topics. Kasuari Software Package has a special feature not available in other multimedia packages, i.e., simulation programs. With these programs, students could change the physical parameters and observe the results on other parameters resembling a laboratory situation. Kasuari Software Package is also equipped with problems set that the students could use to check their understanding. This Software Package has been tested on students of Al Burhan High School in Bandung. The understanding level of grade 12 students who used this package has increase significantly as shown by their test score. <br />