THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FORMAL THINKING ABILITIES AND PROBLEM-SOLVING SKILLS IN KINEMATICS TOPIC

Manurung, Sondang R. (2014) THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FORMAL THINKING ABILITIES AND PROBLEM-SOLVING SKILLS IN KINEMATICS TOPIC. In: The 4th International Conference on Theoretical and Applied Physics (ICTAP) 2014, 16-17 Oct 2014, Denpasar.

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Abstract

The main purpose of the study was to investigate the relationship between formal thinking students’ ability level and their competence in problem solving task in physics. The population was all student prospective teacher students of the first grade in physics education program. A relationship was thought to exist since both sets of skills strongly emphasize conducting fair experiments as well as other abilities. Pencil and paper measures of formal operational and problem solving skill achievement in the kinematics topic were given to 36 students. Resulting correlations showed a moderate relationship between achievements on the two measurements. Factor analysis data corroborate the correlation evidence. One potential inference to be drawn from these results is that problem solving skill teaching might be influenced formal thinking ability.

Item Type: Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Keywords: Problem solving; Kinematics; Education prospective; Formal thinking ability
Subjects: B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology > BF309 Consciousness. Cognition
L Education > LB Theory and practice of education > LB1025 Teaching (Principles and Practice)
L Education > LC Special aspects of education > LC1031 Competency based education
Q Science > QC Physics > QC221 Acoustics. Sound
Divisions: Fakultas Matematika dan Ilmu Pengetahuan Alam > Fisika
Depositing User: Mrs Harly Christy Siagian
Date Deposited: 22 May 2017 06:51
Last Modified: 22 May 2017 07:17
URI: https://digilib.unimed.ac.id/id/eprint/24601

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