EARLY STUDY IN DEVELOPING TAKE-HOME PHYSICS EXPERIMENT: AN ALTERNATIVE STRATEGY TO IMPROVE SCIENCE PROCESS SKILLS AND SCIENTIFIC ATTITUDES
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2014-02-07
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In science instruction, students are instructed to find out the answer of the natural
phenomena. To enable the students to seek out the natural phenomena in science instruction,
students should have science process skills and scientific attitudes as well as scientific
knowledge. Therefore, appropriate teaching methods are an experiment. Unfortunately, this
method is still rarely used by science teachers. Several previous studies indicated that this
condition is caused by a number of constraints faced by teachers and students. Some of them
are limited time to do the experiment at school, lack of materials and equipment in the
laboratory, and sharing of the laboratory. To solve this problem, the researcher is trying to
develop an alternative strategy that allows students to practice science process skills and their
scientific attitudes. This strategy is by taking home a number of science experiments which
enable them to conduct at home. These experiments can be done by students in their spare
time and repeatedly, thus expected to improve their science process skills and scientific
attitudes. To develop this strategy, the researcher used Addie instructional design model and
reported in this paper on analysis phase of Addie model.
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home experiment, scientific attitudes, science process skills