Does Science Writing Heuristic Increase Secondary School Students Argumentation Skill?
A. Daningsih, W. Purwianingsih, G. Yuliani

Program Studi Pendidikan IPA, Sekolah Pasca sarjana, Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia, Bandung, Indonesia

Departemen Pendidikan Biologi, Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia, Bandung, Indonesia

Departemen Pendidikan Kimia, Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia, Bandung, Indonesia

Abstract

Argumentation plays an important role to build and develop students conseptual understanding and critical thinking skill. Factually, argumentation at secondary school is less scientific because of the lack of scientific discussion content. Science Writing Heuristic (SWH) might be the solution because it offers direct observation and comprising experiments at laboratory. It also shapes students conception like a scientist. The research aims to implement SWH on environmental polution learning and observe its effect on students argumentation skill. It applied quasi experiment method with 34 7th grade students as a research subject. The result showed that students argumentation contain claim, evidence, warrant, and backing. It means SWH plays important role to build and increase students argumentation on environmental polution.

Keywords: Argumentation Skill, Science Writing Heuristic, Environmental Polution

Topic: Teaching and Learning in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics