PlantCard: innovation media to increase the reasoning of plants
Nur Sopiah Wahidah, Sariwulan Diana, Amprasto

Pendidikan Biologi Sekolah Pascasarjana Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia

Abstract

Education is one effort to develop and improve quality human resources. Education in accordance with the development of the 21st century one of them relies on the development of thinking skills. The ability to think critically is one of the basic thinking skills a 21st century student must have. One of the key indicators of 21st century critical thinking skills is using various types of reasoning (inductive, deductive, etc.) that fit the situation. However, based on the results of field studies, students reasoning ability is generally low. Based on the results of the interview, students need innovative learning to study the classification of plants. For that, it needs innovative learning media to improve reasoning, one with PlantCard. This study is a preliminary study with purposive sampling technique. Research data were collected with essay questions reasoning ability, and student response with interview about PlantCard media. Initial research results show students feel helped after learning with PlantCard media. For reasoning ability, of the seven reasoning processes measured, the achievement of the most dominant reasoning process is comparing (33%), followed by abstracting (28%), constructing support (19%), deductive reasoning (9%), classifying (7%), and error analysis (4%).

Keywords: 21st century learning, reasoning, PlantCard

Topic: 5. Biology Education