The Development THE DEVELOPMENT OF 21ST CENTURY SCIENCE’S PROCESS SKILLS TEST FOR PRIMARY STUDENTS

Abstract

Abstract

          The purpose of this research  were  to  develop  the  factors  and  indicators, science process skills test, and norms of  science  process  skills  in  the  21^st century  for  primary  students.  The  population  used  to  study  was  primary  school  students  all  over  the  country  in  the  year  2017.  The  sample  was  2,190  primary  students  in  grade 6  who  were  drawn  by  using  the  multistage  random  sampling. The instrument  used  in the  research  was  a  30 – item- written  test  dealing  with  science  process  skills,  multiple  choice  test  and  short  answer  test.  On  the  test  taker  has  two  choices  to  choose  from.  Data  were  analyzed  by  SPSS  program to  factor Analysis.
          The results showed that 2  components  in  the  development  of  elements  and  indicators  of  scientific  process  measurement  skills  in  the  21^st Century   for  elementary  students : basic  learning  process  and  advanced  thinking  process.  For  the basic elements, the learning process  has  8  indicators, including : observation,  measurement, using numbers,  classifying,  space/space  relationship and  space/time relationship, communication, predicting,  inferring and there  are 5 indicators of thinking process  elements, including :  formulating  hypothesis, defining  operationally, control  variables, experimenting and  interpreting /conclusions. The total score of 30 items  was  0.451 to 0.871 and the mean  score  was 0.371 and statistically significant at 0.01. The coefficient of prediction (R²) is between 0.203 and 0.759 
          The quality of  the  21^st Century Science  Process  Skills  for students  in primary  school  were 30  items  with the p - value was between  0.300 - 0.830.  The  r - value was between  0.200 - 0.890. The reliability  of  0.938.  
          Normal Criteria for the 21st Century  science  process  skills  model for primary  school  students  were  interpreted  as normative  meanings. (standardized score norms) of the whole scientific process skills measurement. The edition was divided into 9 levels. From standard  score 9 (Stanine System) as follows: If the student reached  a  score  of  more  than 125  in  the  grade  level,  the  student  gets  an excellent science process skills, if  the  score level is 119 – 125  it  indicates that the student  has  very good science process skills (26.94 %), if  the  score level is  112 – 118  it  indicates that student  has a good scientific process skills (20.09%), a score of 104 - 111 indicates that the students  has  an  average  scientific  process  skills (18.81%) , grade  point  average  of  97 - 103 indicates that the student has moderate scientific process skills (12.60%), a grade level of 90 - 96 indicates that the student has  less  than  moderate  scientific process  skills (7.76%), the score range from 83 - 89 indicates that the student has low scientific process skills (7.85%), grades 77 - 82 show that  the student  has  a  very poor scientific process skills (5.94%), a score of less than 77 indicates that the student has the lowest science process skills.