The effectiveness of kinematics worksheets based instructions virtual phenomenon to improve science process skills and conceptual understanding of pre-service physics teachers during the COVID-19 pandemic
Y S Makiyah1*, A Malik2, D Sulistyaningsih3, and E Susanti4

134 Program Studi Pendidikan Fisika, Universitas Siliwangi, Jl. Siliwangi No. 24, Tasikmalaya 46115, Indonesia
2 Program Studi Pendidikan Fisika, Universitas Islam Negeri Sunan Gunung Djati Bandung, Jl. A.H Nasution No. 105, Bandung 40614, Indonesia

Abstract

Science process skills and conceptual understanding of pre-service physics teachers were in the low category. This research was conducted to solve this problem by using worksheets based on virtual phenomenon instructions. This research aims to determine the effectiveness of worksheets and improvement of science process skills and understanding of concepts in pre-service physics teachers during the COVID-19 pandemic. The design of this research is one group pretest-pottest control group with purposive sampling are pre-service physics teachers who take mechanics in the academic year 2020/2021 (n=81). The data analysis technique uses the effect size and gain score. Based on the result of this research, it was found that the improvement of science process skills and conceptual understanding of pre-service physics teachers reached 0.56 and 0.47 which was categorized as moderate. Effect size for science process skills and conceptual understanding are 3.5 and 1.9 are categorized very high so it can be concluded that the effectiveness of kinematics worksheets based instruction virtual phenomenon is very significant to improve science process skills and conceptual understanding of pre-service physics teachers.

Keywords: worksheets, virtual phenomenon instructions, science process skills, conceptual understanding

Topic: Physics Education