Lesson Plan Analysis and High School Students' Difficulties on Understanding Basic Concepts of Animalia (original) (raw)
This research aims to know the perceptions and cognitive level of students on Animalia, and the perception of teachers on teaching Animalia. Twenty-five of 11 graders of high school and five biology teachers from public and private of five high schools in Surakarta were selected purposively as participants. Data of students' cognitive level was tested by sort of validated instrument using QUEST program, whilst data on students' perceptions was collected by questionnaire. Lesson plan of teachers were analyzed to obtain teachers' perceptions. The result shows the average of students' cognitive level score was 77.22 in lower order thinking, and 43.46 in higher order thinking skills. Students said that memorizing and understanding the biological nomenclature of Animalia is the most difficult matter (40%). Students prefer to learn by memorizing the concepts and connecting to the real phenomena (36%). However, there were 32% students did not meet the minimum requirement. S...
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