Aloysius Duran Corebima

Increasing Islamic Junior High School Students Learning Outcomes through Integration of Science Learning and Islamic Values

Learning results are influenced by several factors, including learning strategies. Islamic values-integrated learning is one of the strategies that can be applied to improve students’ learning results. Science learning integrated with Islamic values provides the opportunity for students to relate the science knowledge with their concepts and experiences in real life as Muslims, so that students can feel that their learning is meaningful. This research is a quasi-experimental research aims to investigate the effect of science learning integrated with Islamic values on students’ learning results. The learning materials taught in this research were substances and the changes, temperature and heat, and energy in living systems. The population of this research was seventh grade students of Islamic Junior High School (MTs) in West Lombok, Indonesia, which were taken by using cluster random sampling technique. The data were analysed using ANCOVA. The results of this research showed that science learning integrated with Islamic values had a significant effect on students’ learning results with p = 0.032, and its’ corrected mean score was 15.196 % higher than that of the students taught by using the conventional learning.

Cognition Regulation of Biology Education Students

Regulation of cognition is a part of metacognition serving as a basic construction of such cognitive skills in controlling learning process as planning, information management strategies, monitoring, debugging strategies, and evaluating. This explorative survey research aimed at comparing the five component skills of regulation. Participants involved in this research were 107 students of third semester of Biology Education (BE) of Faculty of Teacher Training and Education. The participants were purposively selected. The instrument used was the Metacognitive Awareness Inventory (MAI) developed by Schraw and Denisson. Data were analyzed by Anova and were further tested with the least significant difference (LSD). This study concludes that there are significant differences among the five component skills of regulation. Such differences were getting apparent after a post hoc test had been performed, particularly in three skills of regulation. Doing evaluation presents as the lowest skill and it is not significantly different from the subscale of information management strategies. Monitoring is proved as higher skills and is significantly different from the two aforementioned skills. Debugging strategies is higher than monitoring, and planning is the highest one. Both debugging strategies and planning are not significantly different. Such differences give an overview that planning serves as an individual’s top priority in learning. In certain condition, he should adapt to or change strategies with regards to the goals set in planning. In reference to such findings, it is suggested that lecturers empower their students by training their skills of regulation such as through online learning and problem-based learning.