Science process skills are an ability to apply scientific methods in understanding, developing and discovering science. The importance of learning science process skills is to make students easier to solve problems in their daily life. The purpose of this research is to find out the science process skills profile of non-science undergraduate students. The object of this research is non-science undergraduate students in Universitas Negeri Surabaya. It’s using the descriptive qualitative method, and the data obtained from the questionnaire and interview. The result of this research is non-science undergraduate students didn’t accustom to analyzing a problem using science process skills. It’s according to the results of surveys and interviews that are less than optimal. Therefore, the conclusion is science process skills need to train to non-science students because it helps in solving problems in everyday life through a scientific fact.

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Arguments are one of the important purposes in the modern era of learning because it is the basic step to promote student’s critical thinking process and science literature. This research aims to describe and analyse scientific argumentation profile of earthquake of non-science undergraduate student in Universitas Negeri Surabaya. This research uses a qualitative descriptive with the subject of research is 37 first-year non-science students from Universitas Negeri Surabaya. The subject asked to choose the right answer and write their reasons or arguments that support their answer. The results showed that the subject’s ability in providing scientific argument is at the level of providing claims with the support of well warrant.

The Argument-Driven Inquiry (ADI) learning model is a laboratory-based learning model. ADI requires students to be able to work as a group and make argumentation that shows their understanding of concepts. It is important to practice scientific argumentation in learning so that the students can explain scientific phenomena based on evidence and concepts learned. The purpose of the research is to train the student’s argumentation with the ADI model. This research used a qualitative descriptive with the subject of research is 37 senior high school students. Students’ scientific arguments skill is measured by verbal arguments supported by written arguments and analyzed using Toulmin’s Argumentation Pattern. The results show that there is an influence of the ADI model on students spoken scientific argumentation with a mean at level 3 and supported by written argumentation which increased with a mean value of 2.72 on the topic of Elasticity. It can be concluded that the most student’s ability in providing scientific argument is at the level of giving claim with the weak support warrant.