Sofi Hanif, Agus Fany Chandra Wijaya, Nanang Winarno
International Program on Science Education, Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia, Jl. Dr. Setiabudi No. 229, Bandung 40154, Indonesia
Abstract
The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of STEM Project-Based Learning on students Concept Mastery in learning light and optics. The method that is used in this study is pre-experiment with one group pretest-posttest design. The population of this study is eight grade students in Junior High School "X" that is located in Bandung, Indonesia. The sample is chosen by purposive sampling technique consist of 26 students. The result of this study shows that students concept mastery improves from pretest and posttest. The improvement of concept mastery is obtained as much as 0.58 that categorized as the medium improvement. Based on the result STEM Project-Based Learning give the better effect on students concept mastery, so it can be considered as an alternative teaching model that can be implemented in Junior High School.
