Surveys from some research on Indonesian student’s literacy skills showed irregularity with Indonesia's literacy rate. Therefore, it can be said that most of Indonesians have already been literate, in terms of education. Nonetheless, their literacy skills in common still remains weak. Moreover, student’s low literacy skills are deemed as the result of low interest at reading. A number of problems in reading skill is closely associated with limited reading experiences and practices. The current research aims to describe student’s knowledge and thinking skills in a Li-Pro-GP model of instruction. The syntax of this learning model is project-based learning that is integrated with the School Literacy Movement (SLM) and Character Education Reinforcement (CER) programs. The research fell into a descriptive research model.  Research subjects, seventh graders attending IPA instructions. Data of the research were analyzed descriptively, which indicated improvement in terms of knowledge and thinking skills amidst students. In addition, the highest level of language use was found at the test for Aspect C2, C4, C5, and C6, whilst the highest level of conceptual truth was indicated at Aspect C3. On the other hand, the lowest level of giving argumentation appeared at all aspects. In sum, the highest level of skills was indicated by the language use, while the lowest at the student’s confidence in giving argumentation.

The COVID-19 Pandemic has resulted the change in every sector of life. Education institutions transform their learning methods from face-to-face learning to online-based distance learning to keep the learning process running during the pandemic era. The purpose of this study is to obtain the description and analysis results regarding learning profile and evaluation system used in the lecture at Biology Education Study Program during the Pandemic. This survey study was conducted in August 2020 until August 2021, even semester of 2019/2020, odd semester of 2019/2020, even semester of 2020/2021, and odd semester of 2021/2022. The population of this study was the students of Biology Education of UMM and the students of private universities in Malang City. Purposive sampling was employed for sample selection. The instruments used were survey and questionnaire forms. The data was analyzed descriptively and quantitatively. The results of the study show that online learning is apparently not optimal in Biology Education and other private universities in Malang due to limitations in discussions, assignments, and assessments. Therefore, it is necessary to conduct training session, planning, and implementation of innovative online learning to optimize learning process. To make the learning process more accurate and effective, evaluations are also needed.

Teacher competence in carrying out Classroom Action Research (CAR) and presenting CAR results in the form of scientific work is a demand as well as a need in improving the quality of learning and teacher professionalism. The Chairperson of the MGMP IPA Malang city said that teachers' abilities and skills in conducting research still needed to be improved, especially for CAR research. The purpose of community service activities is to assist, direct, and collaborate with teachers in classroom action research activities and publish the results. The activities were carried out from June to December 2022. The mentoring activities were carried out in 3 Junior High Schools in Malang represented by one science teacher. Assistance is carried out online and offline. Assistance methods by means of lectures, brainstorming, discussions. The results of the mentoring activities resulted in 3 proposals and a CAR final report with different topics and CAR articles. Teachers have shown an increase in the ability to compile, apply and report CAR and scientific publications in the form of articles after the pre and post tests were carried out.

<p style="text-align: justify;">Metacognitive, critical thinking and opinion expression are in high demand. This study aimed to investigate the effects of the blended project- based literacy that integrates school literacy movement strengthening character education (literasi berbasis proyek terintegrasi GLS dan PPK: Li-Pro-GP) learning model on students' metacognitive skills, critical thinking, and opinion expression. A post-test experimental design was used to answer the research question. The study was conducted from August to October 2021 at Government Junior High School 23 Malang. Seventh-grade students were selected as research participants. The participants included 30 students from class VII-2. The research instrument was five essay questions to measure critical thinking skills. Material and assessment experts validated the essay questions developed by the researcher. The items that were declared valid were tested for validity. The result showed five valid items with high reliability of .670. Metacognitive skills were measured using the Metacognition Awareness Instrument (MAI), which consists of 40 items. The questions declared valid were tested for validity with a very high reliability of .953 for 37 items, and only three items were invalid. The ability to express an opinion was measured with an observation questionnaire validated by experts with a valid instrument score. Data analysis was performed by path analysis using the SmartPLS software. The results showed that the Li-Pro-GP blended learning model significantly strengthened students' metacognitive skills, critical thinking, and opinion formation.</p>

Concept understanding and product creativity of Ma'arif class VII A junior high school students are less than optimal. This problem is because learning activities do not invite students to increase literacy. Based on this, it is necessary to innovate learning. The purpose of this research is to apply Li-Pro-GP learning (Project-Based Science Literacy in the integrated scientific literacy movement strengthening character education) to improve conceptual understanding and creativity of learning poster products. The type of research used is quasi-experimental research (quasi-experimental) using a one-group pretest-posttest design. The research population is seventh-grade junior high school students. While sampling using purposive sampling. The research sample is all Ma'arif junior high school students in class VII A. Data collection techniques use tests and documentation with research instruments, namely written test questions in the form of essays used to pretest and posttest. The measurement of the creativity of the learning poster product uses the product creativity rubric. Data analysis using paired t-test with the help of data processing applications IBM SPSS 26 and Ms.Excel. The results showed that: 1) there was an effect of using the Li-Pro-GP learning model on the ability to understand concepts; 2) there is an effect of using the Li-Pro-GP learning model on the creativity of the learning poster product.