This research aims to examine undergraduate students’ argumentation skills during and after the learning process in the classroom setting and their responses toward the implementation of socioscientific issues (SSI) through debate in the learning process. This research involved 32 undergraduate students and implemented design-based research with pretest and posttest in a natural classroom setting using three topics of SSI debate that widely discussed in Indonesia: Nuclear Powerplant (Topic 1), Food Preservation (Topic 2), and Genetically Modified Organism (Topic 3). Data was collected using observation sheets, tests, and questionnaires. Observation is to measure argumentation ability when applying the debate method in class settings, the test measures the improvement of argumentation skills, and questionnaires measure students’ responses to the application of the debate method. In this study, argumentation scores were obtained from six indicators and divided by a maximum score of 24 times 100. Normalized gain (N-gain) was calculated to determine the effectiveness of the intervention in the classroom. T-test was also conducted to test the significance of the differences in the pretest and posttest results on argumentation skills.  The results obtained in this study are: the argumentation skills score during the learning process for six groups were 95, 80.6, 90.3, 95, 83.3, and 77.5; the mean score of pretest and posttest were 52.22 ± 6.62 and 85.78 ± 4.72. The consistency of opinions shows the change from “agree” to “disagree” for Topics 1 and 3. The undergraduate students agree and consistently agree toward Topic 2. The paired t-test result also shows that the intervention statistically has a significant difference between the two means, indicating that the undergraduate students’ argumentation skills are better than before the intervention. Otherwise, most of the undergraduate students respond positively toward the implementation of the debate related to SSI. Despite some limitations, the debate on SSI can improve argumentation skills in classroom settings, especially in science education majors.

Penerapan media pembelajaran interaktif ditinjau dari aspek kepraktisan dan keefektifan. Metode penelitian yang digunakan adalah metode kuantitatif. Media pembelajaran interaktif diterapkan di SMPN 3 Sidoarjo pada kelas VIII I. Instrumen yang digunakan adalah lembar observasi aktivitas siswa, lembar keterlaksanaan pembelajaran, lembar angket respon siswa dan lembar tes. Teknik pengumpulan data dengan cara angket, observasi, serta pretest dan posttest. Berdasarkan kepraktisan dari penggunaan media, untuk keterlaksanaan didapatkan kriteria sangat baik, respon siswa mendapatkan respon positif dengan kriteria yang sangat baik, sedangkan untuk aktivitas siswa menunjukkan aktivitas yang positif. Hasil belajar siswa mendapatkan hasil yang sangat baik. Hasil penelitian tersebut menunjukkan bahwa media interaktif berbasis macromedia flash layak digunakan sebagai media pembelajaran.Kata Kunci : macromedia flash, hasil belajar siswa, sistem gerak manusia.

Having the development of learning materials of the history of physics with Socratic learning dialogue, we implemented them to the two classes in a public university in Indonesia. The materials consisted of a lesson plan, student worksheets, evaluation sheets, and rubrics that fulfill the criteria of construct, content, and empirical validity. However, the discussion of this paper focused on the results of empirical validity. Learning materials were trialed and tested on a limited participant (10 university students from a public university in Surabaya - S), then the real classes included 40 students from a public university in Surabaya, Indonesia- S1 and S2 (20 students for each class). The data analysis technique used a descriptive statistical analysis with percentages and logical analysis. The research findings included: 1) the student's assessment of the learning materials (especially the handout and student worksheet) were categorized as good, 2) the feasibility of the learning materials during the real teaching activities obtained: the implementation of history of physics learning at S1 and S2 for each item was a quite good category, and 3) assessment of critical thinking students who are oriented Socratic dialogue showed that over 60% and 70% of S1 and S2 student answers lead to Socratic thinking, respectively. The implication of the study is the availability of physics history learning materials that are ready to be used in conducting lectures in the following semester.

Penelitian ini untuk meningkatkan literasi sains mahasiswa dengan menggunakan e-learning pada pembelajaran fisika dasar. E-learning merupakan solusi dalam menawarkan berbagai kemungkinan jaringan sosial sehingga dengan cara tersebut pengajar dapat menyimpan berbagai catatan interaksi peserta didik dalam pembelajaran. Bentuk perkuliahan dengan menggunakan e-learning sebagai alat bantu untuk memahami materi merupakan hal yang baik. Bentuk video dalam e-leraning merupakan bentuk video yang berupa fakta-fakta fenomena terkait dengan materi perkuliahan fisika dasar pada konsep suhu dan kalor sehingga memberikan efek dalam literasi sains mahasiswa. Adapun yang fokus literasi sains dalam penelitian ini adalah pengetahuan mahasiswa, kemampuan membuat kesimpulan dan pengambilan keputusan. Penelitian ini untuk mengetahui gambaran umum tentang implementasi pembelajaran elearning yang dilihat dari perencanaan, pelaksanaan dan evaluasi pembelajaran elearning. Fokus literasi sains mahasiswa materi perkuliahan fisika dasar pada konsep suhu dan kalor yakni pengetahuan mahasiswa, kemampuan membuat kesimpulan dan pengambilan keputusan. Desain penelitian yang digunakan untuk uji coba produk adalah One Group Pretest-Posttest Design. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan adanya peningkatan kemampuan literasi sains yang signifikan khususnya komponen pengetahuan, membuat kesimpulan dan pengambilan keputusan. Hasil analisis N-Gain menunjukkan kemampuan literasi sains mahasiswa dalam pembelajaran fisika kemampuan pengetahuan, kesimpulan, dan pengambilan keputusan pada materi suhu dan kalor menunjukkan sebagian besar kategori sedang. Kata Kunci: e-learning, literasi sains, pembelajaran fisika dasar

The adoption of blended learning at university levels is pervasive. This learning approach is deemed to be more effective compared to face-to-face or online learning. To prove the claim, this study aimed to investigate a gap that may be existed between students’ expectations and perceptions of blended learning implementation at the Science Department in a university in Surabaya, Indonesia. A questionnaire and semi-structured interviews were utilized to gather relevant information from 79 preservice science teachers who have experienced blended learning in science subjects. The gaps between expectations and perceptions were measured using Cohen’s effect size. Overall, the effect size of students’ expectations and perceptions of the blended learning implementation exceeded 0.5 and is categorized as large. The aspects with large effect size values included the number of interactions between students and teachers. These findings indicated that the implementations of blended learning in science subjects were not run well.Implications of this study are discussed.