The development of learning activities in kinetics physics subject to develop problem solving ability with metacognition for a students of faculty of science and fisheries technology

Abstract

The purposes of this research was to create the metacognitive learning activities for measuring the problem solving performance of 30 students who studies the introductory physics. The researching instruments composed of 6 parts: was included three kinetic lesson plans, forms for recording students’ behavior, forms for metacognitive measurement in solving physics questions, forms for measuring the problem solving skills at students in answering questions, and form for measuring the students’ performance in answering physics questions. The results showed that the instruction was conducted in 5 steps, first, planning for problem solving, second, identifying, third, executing , fourth, monitoring, and the last, evaluating problem solving, that 23 students (76.67%) of students passed the physics problem solving ability test criterion of 60 % of the full marks, which showed that the students had to develop physics problem solving ability.