Study of High School Students^ Experiences in Real and Virtual CCLab Activities A Suhandi1)*, A Samsudin1), A Amin2)
1) Departemen Pendidikan Fisika, Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia, Jl. Dr. Setiabudhi No. 229, Bandung 40154, Indonesia
2) Program Magister Pendidikan Fisika, Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia, Jl. Dr. Setiabudhi No. 229, Bandung 40154, Indonesia
Abstract
The CCLab model is a practicum model that has been developed by our research team for the purposes of remedial teaching oriented to remediation of students^ misconceptions. From the results of the implementation test, it was found that the implementation of the real and virtual CCLab models had a high effectiveness in remediating students^ misconceptions. Of course, this success cannot be separated from the cognitive events experienced by the students while participating in CCLab activities. This research was conducted to get an overview of the experiences of high school students during CCLab activities so that their misconceptions can be remedied. This study uses a descriptive method with the number of research subjects of 40 students at one high school in West Bandung Regency who have participated in real and virtual CCLab activities related to the concept of parallel electric circuits. The instruments used for collecting data are structured interviews and student worksheets. The results showed that most of the students experienced cognitive conflict during the practical confrontation of conceptional beliefs which made disequilibrium in their minds- most of the students experienced a situation where they had to change their old conceptions with new conceptions during the practical accommodation of conceptions, almost half of the total number of students have difficulty in assembling and reading electrical measuring instruments during the implementation of real-CClab so that the duration of time required is longer than the implementation of virtual CCLab. These results indicate that the strategies and approaches used in CCLab, namely the conceptual change approach and conflict cognitive strategy, have functioned properly.
Keywords: Cognitive events experience, Real and virtual CCLab, High school students