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Re-examining a Classical Issue: Integrating Cognitive Processes in Scientific-5M Approach to Learn Science in Indonesia

Re-examining a Classical Issue: Integrating Cognitive Processes in Scientific-5M Approach to... This study aims to help concrete thinkers learn science through the use of Piagets’ cognitive processes (CPs) during scientific inquiry. A total of 203 fourth-grade students participated as volunteers in a pre-post control group study. The students were from urban, remote rural, and suburban regions of Indonesia. Data analysis demonstrated that students were at a low level of concrete reasoning. However, CPs significantly enhanced students’ academic performance in science classes from low to medium and even high categories. CPs also promoted concrete thinkers from lower to higher levels of concrete reasoning. Study results suggest that teachers should attend to the concrete reasoning development of elementary school students and promote their levels of cognitive processing to help them achieve academically in science. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Asia-Pacific Education Researcher Springer Journals

Re-examining a Classical Issue: Integrating Cognitive Processes in Scientific-5M Approach to Learn Science in Indonesia

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Publisher
Springer Journals
Copyright
Copyright © De La Salle University 2021
ISSN
0119-5646
eISSN
2243-7908
DOI
10.1007/s40299-021-00628-z
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Abstract

This study aims to help concrete thinkers learn science through the use of Piagets’ cognitive processes (CPs) during scientific inquiry. A total of 203 fourth-grade students participated as volunteers in a pre-post control group study. The students were from urban, remote rural, and suburban regions of Indonesia. Data analysis demonstrated that students were at a low level of concrete reasoning. However, CPs significantly enhanced students’ academic performance in science classes from low to medium and even high categories. CPs also promoted concrete thinkers from lower to higher levels of concrete reasoning. Study results suggest that teachers should attend to the concrete reasoning development of elementary school students and promote their levels of cognitive processing to help them achieve academically in science.

Journal

The Asia-Pacific Education ResearcherSpringer Journals

Published: Feb 1, 2023

Keywords: Scientific inquiry; Cognitive development; Cognitive processes; Concrete thinkers; Science learning

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