STUDENTS’ ERRORS IN SOLVING SCIENCE REASONING-DOMAIN OF TRENDS IN INTERNATIONAL MATHEMATICS AND SCIENCE STUDY (TIMSS)
Date
2018-05-04Author
Utomo, Anjar Putro
Narulita, Erlia
Yuana, Kesih
Fikri, Kamalia
Wahono, Bevo
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This research aims to identify the errors of students’ answers in solving the TIMSS cognitive domain of reasoning.
This research
was
a qualitative
descriptive
research. A total 259 students
from
four secondary
schools located
in
rural
and urban areas in Jember,
East Java
participated
in a paper and pencil test. Error
identification was
examined
by reducing
the result
of
wrong students’ answer and grouping based on error type of general errors. The
results showed that the average percentage of total errors from the four schools were contradicting error of 7.3%,
disregarding evidence error of 5.2%, misreading error of 45.7%, and opinion-based judgment error of 40.9%. In
conclusion, there were four types of general errors made by students in answering TIMMS test item of reasoning
domain with misreading and disregarding evidence as the highest and lowest error, respectively.
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