Students’ Problem-Solving Profile in Overcoming Sound Wave Concepts Based Students’ Academic Abilities on Online Class

Abstract

A research has been conducted to describe the students' initial problem-solving abilities through five stages of problem-solving. This study was aim to describe the profile of students' problem-solving in overcoming sound wave concepts in terms of academic ability, where the research subjects were grade XI students of SMA Negeri 6 Gorontalo Utara. It was a part of the research development of social media-aided named blended learning models to improve problem-solving skills. It used qualitative descriptive study it shows percentage of problem-solving ability test completion stages is in the category of students with academic abilities, with an average score of 83.75%, after that students are in the medium and low categories. It showed that there are some who are able to carry out the stages of problem-solving in completing problem-solving tests but have not been able to describe it properly. Finally, the maximum score was difficult to get either in students with high, medium and low academic ability categories.