The low level of biology teacher candidate questioning skills

Abstract

Questioning skills is one of competencies required by teachers in dealing with the 21st-Century challenges. The purpose of this study was profiling biology teacher candidates’ questioning skills in Pekanbaru. The subjects of the research were the students, in three institutions, who were taking Zoology course. The total number of the subjects were 278 students selected using purposive random sampling. The instrument used was test contained of five items which instructed students to make questions related to five objects. The results showed that the teacher candidates’ question level in three institution were low-level question (more than 50% in C1-C3 level). The questions posed were dominance in the level of memorizing, understanding, applying, and analyzing. They were not accustomed to asking questions with the evaluating and creating levels. The systematic of question was dominated as a divergent question, while the question area asked was dominated in the physiology (32.93%) and morphology (32.14%) concept. The information gained from this study can be consideration point for further research.

Pengaruh pengalaman mengajar guru SMP terhadap keterampilan bertanya tingkat dasar dan lanjut

“…Bertanya adalah proses berpikir yang saling berhubungan dengan kemampuan berpikir kritis, berpikir kreatif, dan problem solving (Chin & Osborne, 2008) dalam (Nurramadhani, 2019). Keterampilan bertanya sangat penting dikuasai oleh guru untuk menciptakan kegiatan pembelajaran yang efektif (Darmadi & Putra, 2020;Zein & Maielfi, 2020). Hal ini disebabkan, pada setiap tahap kegiatan pembelajaran guru dituntut untuk mengajukan pertanyaan kepada siswa dan kualitas jawaban siswa bergantung kepada kualitas pertanyaan yang diajukan oleh guru (Indriani et al, 2015;Israwati et al, 2020).…”

Profile of Questioning and Reinforcement Skills of Pre-Service Teachers in Biology Learning of the Tenth Grade

“…Even novice teacher have good questioning skill, but advanced questioning skills need to be improved due to requires an in-depth knowledge (Martino & Maher, 1994;Sari & Hasibuan (2019). Darmadi, et al, (2020) stated that pre-service teacher tent to ask low-level questions. They were not accustomed to asking questions with the evaluating and creating level.…”

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“…The scientific approach is learning that prioritizes observing, formulating problems, proposing hypotheses, collecting data, analyzing data and concluding (Murtini, 2018). Unfortunately, teachers still do not plan to learn using a scientific approach (Darmadi &;Putra, 2020;Meroni et al, 2015). Learning designed by teachers has not sought students' higher-order thinking skills (Anggrella et al, 2023).…”