Open AccessThe mastery of grade 4 of elementary school students’ concepts on energy through the implementation of the RADEC learning model
Author(s) -
Farhan Fuadi,
Wahyu Sopandi,
Atep Sujana
Publication year - 2021
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 - 10.1088/1742-6596/1806/1/012140
Subject(s) - mathematics education , test (biology) , energy (signal processing) , sample (material) , psychology , mathematics , statistics , physics , paleontology , biology , thermodynamics
This study was aimed to determine students’ concept mastery on energy topic before and after the implementation of Read-Answer-Discuss-Explain-and Create (RADEC) learning model. This study was carried out using pre-experimental method with one group pre-test and post-test design. The participants of this study were eight elementary school students in which five of them from a public elementary school in Bandung, two students from a public elementary school in Tasikmalaya, and a student from a public elementary school in Ciamis. The instrument in this study was a four-tier test in the form of google form. The data were analyzed quantitatively and the result indicated that 50% of the students experienced misconceptions in learning energy topic. After the RADEC learning model was implemented, 77% of the students acquired scientific conception on the energy topic. Based on the Paired Sample T-Test result ( p 0.015 <0.05), there was a difference in the concept mastery between pre-test and post-test scores. The obtained N Gain score of the pre-test and the post-test in this study was 0.67 which was considered as moderate category. For further researchers, they were recommended to involve more participants so that the findings could be more useful.