Identification of senior high school student'smisconceptions in makassar city on cell concepts by using the certainty of response index (CRI) method

Abstract

This study aims (i) to determine the level of understanding of high school students on the concept of cells (ii) to identify which basic competencies of the concept of cell students who experience misconceptions. This research is descriptive research. The method used to identify misconceptions that occur in students is the Certainty of Response Index (CRI). The sample in this study were students from 8 senior high schools in the city of Makassar. The instrument used in the form of a reasoned multiple choice diagnostic test equipped with CRI values and structured interviews to determine the causes of misconceptions.The results showed that high school students in the city of Makassar experienced misconceptions on the 6 Basic Competencies about the concept of cells which were studied with the tendency of students to experience more misconceptions in Basic Competence 3.2 to compare transport mechanisms in membranes (diffusion, osmosis, active transport, endocytosis, and exocytosis) from observations and Basic Competence 4.2 experiment with diffusion and osmosis by using potato tubers or spinach or salted stem and linking them to trans membrane transport events.