Irma Rahma Suwarma

Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia | UPI · Department of Physics

STEM education gives practice experiences for students. However, the assessment in identifying its impacts has not been developed in Indonesia widely. Teachers are responsible to assess students’ achievements as an impact of learning activities. They said that they have difficulties in developing the assessment instruments. Therefore, workshop acti...

One of the 21st century skills is critical thinking skills. However, according to several research results, it shows that students’ critical thinking skills in Indonesia are still low. This is caused by inappropriate learning process, so that it has an impact on the effectiveness of achieving competence in learning. Teaching materials are one of th...

Concept mastery is one of the main goals in the learning process. This study aimed to analyze the improvement of students’ physics concept mastery by implementing challenge-based learning with Edmodo-assisted learning. This study used mixed methods with an embedded experimental model research design. The research sample was 10th-grade students in a...

The purpose of this study was to determine the understanding of science teachers about the nature of science (NOS) and its instructional practices and implications for renewable energy. Surveys and interviews were conducted on science teachers and elementary, middle, and high school/vocational school students in this study. The instrument used was...

Physics education research about student’s attitudes in formal education have put out a large number of papers. This paper reports a descriptive-quantitative about attitude towards physics female students on Islamic Boarding School. The subject of research were female student’s Junior High School whose have around 12-15 years old in 7th until 9th g...

Latar Belakang: Sains atau Ilmu Pengetahuan Alam (IPA) adalah bidang studi yang terdiri dari fisika, biologi, dan kimia. Fisika merupakan salah satu mata kuliah wajib di sekolah menengah atas jurusan IPA. Karakteristik kelas IPA berbeda dengan mata pelajaran lainnya. Sains secara inheren didasarkan pada produk, proses, dan sikap. Sebagai suatu pros...

In 2018, the Indonesian Ministry of Education issued a new policy related to the development of learning oriented towards a Higher Order Thinking Skill (HOTS) approach at the primary and secondary school levels. This learning development is expected to be able to improve the achievement of Indonesian students in international competitions such as P...

Latar Belakang: Perkembangan teknologi yang begitu pesat perlu dimanfaatkan dengan baik dalam dunia pendidikan. Salah satu fenomena yang terjadi saat ini adalah begitu dekatnya produk teknologi dalam hal ini perangkat smartphone atau android dengan kehidupan dan keseharian kita. Sehubungan dengan itu, perlu dilakukan pengembangan terhadap media pem...

This study aims to prove empirically the validity and reliability of Questionnaire on Students' Perceptions of STEM and Problem-solving (SPSP) in learning physics using Rasch model. The questionnaire was disseminated to 59 (N=59) students class XI MIPA in one of Senior High School in Kuningan Regency. Development of SPSP Questionnaire using procedu...

This study describes an online method for measuring students’ collaborative problem-solving skills individually using two interactive web-based assessment on the webcps program, with students working in pairs. The method used in this research is a qualitative method of case studies of vocational high school students on dynamic electric material. Pr...

This aim of this research application of STEM learning with the 6th-semester student object of physics education study program STKIP Taman Siswa Bima. The research subject is creative thinking skills. This study uses a One Group Pretest - Posttest Design with Pretest design; to measure students’ creative thinking at the beginning of learning (Y_1),...

IRS-7 is the abbreviation of 7 (seven) indicators of representing information skills. This study aims to analyze the students’ scientific communication skills regarding the ability to represent information consisting of 7 indicators is: 1) schemes to graphs, 2) verbal to the scheme, 3) verbal to mathematical, 4) schemes to diagrams, 5) schemes to m...

The aim of this research is to obtain a profile of students’ critical thinking ability in project based learning (PjBL) integrated STEM (Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics). The research method used is quantitative descriptive. The subjects in this research were students of 8 th grade in one of Junior High School Bandung with a total of...

The scenario of 21 st century relies heavily on the computer and digital system. Many scholars argued that the implementation of integrated science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) in school system will have direct advantages for students, teachers and educational institutions. Therefore, this study is aimed to examine the enhancemen...

The main goal of this study is to present examples and results of the implementation of the Challenge Based Learning (CBL) model implemented STEM education in Indonesia. This study integrates the steps of the CBL model and the dimensions of STEM education. The research method used in this study is a quantitative method with a type of quasi-experime...

penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui peningkatan penguasaan konsep fisika dan self-diagnosis peserta didik menggunakan pendekatan STEM pada kelas XI SMA materi hukum pascal. Desain penelitian one-group pretest-posttest dengan sampel 30 orang siswa. Berdasarkan hasil temuan, terdapat peningkatan penguasaan konsep [ = 0,51] dari pre-test ke post...

The main goal of this study is to present the effectiveness improvement of student’s creative thinking skills using CBL implemented in STEM education and CBL combined with worksheet PSL. The STEM education perspective used in this study is a separate science discipline (Physics) that incorporates other disciplines. The research method used in this...

Recently in America, Europe and Asia, STEM education has been viewed as an educational reform that answers 21st-century demands in an era of productive technology and information that trigger economic, political and demographic changes around the world. As a developing country, Indonesia is called upon to deal with these demands by developing quali...

The science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education (STEM) provides a high opportunity in exercising this skill to students. Based on our investigation, the difficulties might be handled by applying the engineering course model. The class can be conducted separately as an independent subject such as the basic technical education, which...

This research has been conducted to analyze students' problem-solving abilities in direct current electricity in STEM-based learning. The implementation of STEM in this research is to train the domain of scientific practices and engineering practices that are associated with model problems and project-based learning. The research method used was pr...

Engaging students in physics learning is a challenge for teachers, since few students were interested in it. Therefore, STEM based learning that embedded scientific and engineering practice, was chosen to solve the problem. It has been developing in Indonesia since 2013 at secondary school level. The implementation evaluation showed that most of ST...

21st century skills are a set of capabilities students must possess to succeed in the information age. Critical and creative thinking skills are part of the basic skills in the 21 st century addition of collaborating and communication skills. Therefore, we need a measuring instrument that can measure these skills. In this study, presented a way of...

Indonesian PISA achievement in 2015 was the lowest of the OECD countries. The average of Indonesia students' scores on PISA 2015 for scientific literacy has been evaluated on the ranked of 62 from 69 countries. This PISA achievement must be improved in 2030. The scientific literacy competence of domain demanded students to have the ability to expla...

This study aims to investigate junior high school students' scientific literacy on earth science concept through scientific literacy test. The context of earth science in this research consists of layer of earth, earthquake, and volcano. The research instrument employed was 14 multiple choices with four alternative answers that covered 3 competenci...

The challenges in 21st century demands the high competitiveness. The way of thinking ability, determine how it work ability and choose instrument be part of the skills will need in the 21st century. The competence it can be supported by learning involving the student performance skills. Based on the preliminary studies at one junior high school in...

This study conducted by the finding of the lack of students' cooperative attitude that gained 35.29% and the students' responsibility 29.41%. It also looks at the preliminary study that conducted by the observation group obtained the students' cooperative attitude (34%) and student's responsibility (30%). The purpose of this study to determine stud...

Science and technology are rapidly developing needs to be balanced with the human resources that have the qualified ability. Not only cognitive ability, but also have the soft skills that support 21st century skills. Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Education is a solution to improve the quality of learning and prepare stude...

This study aimed to know the critical thinking skills profil of senior high school students. This research using a descriptive study to analysis student test results of critical thinking skill of 40 students XI grade in one of the senior high school in Bogor District. The method used is survey research with sample determined by purposive sampling t...

This paper outlined the results of an experimental study on the effects of multi-representation approach in learning Archimedes Law on students' mental model improvement. The multi-representation techniques implemented in the study were verbal, pictorial, mathematical, and graphical representations. Students' mental model was classified into three...

This study is intended to examine the development and validation of simple machines instructional material that developed based on Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) framework that provides guidance to help students learn and practice for real life and enable individuals to use knowledge and skills they need to be an informed c...

The important aspects of improving metacognitive skills are knowledge, intelligence, experience, and practice. STEM education is considered to be one of the most influential approaches to encouraging students to be self-regulated learners. In STEM education lessons, students are provided many opportunities to develop their thinking skills (metacogn...

Penelitian ini dimotivasi oleh banyak siswa yang memiliki kesalahpahaman tentang konsep hukum Newton, misalnya, siswa tidak dapat menentukan pasangan reaksi tindakan kekerasan, tidak ada gaya yang bekerja pada obyek stasioner, obyek massa kecil memiliki inersia yang lebih besar, benda bergerak dengan kecepatan konstan memiliki percepatan konstan. D...

Pemahaman yang baik masyarakat tentang Matematika dan IPA (MIPA) merupakan salah satu faktor yang penting dalam peningkatan jati diri, martabat, dan kesejahteraan suatu bangsa. Upaya untuk membangun masyarakat yang melek MIPA (Mathematic and Science Literacy) pada hakekatnya merupakan tugas semua komponen bangsa. Lebih khusus, praktisi pendidikan (...

The internet has been remarkably successful in developing greater opportunities for education practical possibilities. More than 70 countries still have monopolies over international gateway services, and 92 countries did not have internet exchange point (IXP), which raise the price to access and reduce the affordability of internet access to educa...