UTILIZING THE VISUAL SIMULATION MEDIA TO REDUCE STUDENTS' MISCONCEPTIONS ON ASTRONOMIC MATERIALS IN HIGH SCHOOL GEOGRAPHY LESSONS
This research was motivated by the number of students' mistakes in understanding the basic knowledge of astronomy in high school’s Geography subjects, especifically those related to the topic of the Earth - Moon and Sun system. The aim of the study is to identify students' misconception...
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| Language: | Indonesia |
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| Institution: | Institut Teknologi Bandung |
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| Summary: | This research was motivated by the number of students' mistakes in understanding
the basic knowledge of astronomy in high school’s Geography subjects,
especifically those related to the topic of the Earth - Moon and Sun system. The
aim of the study is to identify students' misconceptions and to study how effective
the utilization of visual simulation media may reduce these misconceptions.
This research is an experimental study with a pre-experimental method. The
research design is one group pre-test – post-test. The population of this study is
211 10th grade students of SMAN 1 Pangkalpinang in the academic year 2020-
2021. The data collecting was conducted by using a four-tier multiple choice
diagnostic test (multiple four-tier test) in combination with CRI (Certainty
Responses of Index) method to measure the students’ understanding and identify
misconceptions. The learning media used were digital and non-digital-based
visual simulation media.
The study showed that: (1) students’ misconceptions are identified mostly on the
topics of Coriolis effect, daily apparent motion of the Sun, annual apparent
motion of the Sun, difference between the length of day and night, intensity of
solar radiation, and eclipses; (2) students’ understanding on the topic of impacts of
Earth's rotation and revolution increased after being given learning experience
utilizing visual simulation media, while the percentage of students showing
misconceptions decreased; (3) after the treatment that utilized visual simulation,
the average student individual misconceptions reduced by 76.32% (high
category), and the average misconceptions towards each problem being tested
decreased by 96.91% (high category). Thus, it can be concluded that the
utilization of visual simulation media is very effective in reducing misconceptions
that 10th grade studentsat SMAN 1 Pangkalpinang have towards the concept of the
impacts of Earth's rotation and revolution. |
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