Open AccessHabits of mind potency of students of prospective biology teacher
Author(s) -
Eka Ariyati,
Herawati Susilo,
Hadi Suwono,
Fatchur Rohman
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of physics. conference series
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.21
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1742-6596
pISSN - 1742-6588
DOI - 10.1088/1742-6596/1567/2/022048
Subject(s) - clarity , psychology , mathematics education , action (physics) , psychomotor learning , set (abstract data type) , critical thinking , cognition , biology , biochemistry , physics , quantum mechanics , neuroscience , computer science , programming language
Habits of mind are a great attitude obtained by the discipline of mind training as habits in action. The action is the consequence of habits of mind that assort cognitive, affective, and psychomotor. Habits of mind are a new trend in education besides high order thinking skills. The purpose of this research is to discover the mind habits potential of Biology students in their first year of college. The method of this research was a survey that involved 67 Biology students in the first year of a university in Pontianak, Indonesia. The data collected by using a questionnaire that contained 44 questions about 16 indicators of mind habits by Costa and Kallick. The data analyzed by using descriptive methods. The findings show that the students’ mind habits are at a sufficient level, and there is no significant difference among 16 categories of habits of mind. Therefore, the freshmen of the Biology Department have good habits of mind potency with the highest percentage is flexibly thinking category (79,60), and the lowest is thinking and communicating with clarity and precision category (63,73). As a suggestion, students’ habits of mind as part of thinking skills need to improve through the learning process.