Profile of multi-modal representation ability of junior high school students on science material in Sleman district

Abstract

This study aims to determine the profile of multi-modal representation ability of junior high school students in science material in Sleman district. The method used in this research is a survey with a quantitative approach and document study with a qualitative approach. The object of research is 10 junior high schools with a total of 1,555 students in the Sleman district. The data used are the results of the national examinations on science learning in 2019 from the Education Assessment Center, Ministry of Education and Culture Republic of Indonesia and 40 items of the national exam documents on science subjects. The results reveal that the ability of student representation on the type of verbal-verbal questions was 50.45%, verbal-visual by 78.14%, verbal-symbolic by 66.03%, verbal-mathematical by 50.45%, visual-verbal by 72.71%, visual-visual by 76.25%, visual-symbolic by 81.57%, and visual-mathematical by 61.55%. From these results it can be concluded that the lowest student representation ability in the type of verbal-mathematical, verbal-verbal, and visual-mathematical problems.