ANALISIS KEMAMPUAN PEMECAHAN MASALAH DENGAN PEMBELAJARAN BERBASIS MASALAH MATERI HUKUM ACHIMEDES

Abstract

The purpose of this research was to analyze students problem-solving skills related to the topic of Archimedes' law which is taught using a problem - based learning model. The research subjects were 36 students of SMK Bakti Kencana class. The research model that used for this research was mixed methods. The results of this study was indicate that the students' problem-solving abilities have increased significantly, namely the N-gain average score of 0.70 is in the medium category, and the effect size is 5.08 (very strong category). So it can be concluded that the students' problem solving abilities have changed very well, namely at the stage of defining the problem: problem schema, understanding casual relationships in problems, arguing to learn problem solving, and analogizing problems.