Chemical Practicum Learning Project-Based Instrument Analysis to Develop Students’ New Literacy Skills

Abstract

The era of globalization has required universities to prepare graduates who are ready to work according to the competence of the 21st century, namely graduates who not only master skills according to their fields but are required to have new literacy such as technology literacy, data literacy, and human literacy in the context of problem solving in their fields of expertise. According to his qualifications, chemistry graduates must be able to solve chemical problems according to their field through procedural approaches using chemical instruments. Through the study of chemical practicum project-based instrument analysis associated with daily life can provide the ability of instrumental analysis correctly and can improve new literacy which is the main key of the competence of chemical graduates. Through project-based learning, students are required to be able to draft practicum, run projects and report project results. The results obtained that students' ability to access, complete, and upload assignments online include the ability to upload a list of borrowing tools online (96%), able to describe how to create a working solution (90%), as well as being able to upload reports well (97%). Achievement of students' skills in conducting instrumentation analysis with a minimum high category include pH-meter tools (94%), conductometers (85%), and spectrophotometers (83%). The ability of students in designing projects with minimal categories both in detail include design systematics (71%), goal formulation (62%), variable identification (73%), variable control (72%), hypotheses (45%), library foundation systematics (47%), inter-concept relationships (65%), use of formulas (50%), tool determination (65%), conducting experimental steps (65%), and time allocation (100%). The achievements of students' ability to communicate project results in detail include discussing results (58%), presenting (77%), reporting in writing (63%), charting (60%). The achievement of students' skills in processing data of high category minimum project results includes valid data collection (83%), systematic reports (67%), report quality (68%), data analysis and discussion (62%), drawing clear conclusions (55%). From this study obtained the learning model of chemical practicum project-based instrumentation analysis can improve data literacy in low, medium, high categories (5, 63, 32%), technology literacy (2, 20, 78%), and HR literacy (0.75, 25%) so as to improve the competence of chemistry graduates. It is necessary to provide a lot of training so that the low literacy skills can be improved again.