Beyond effective teaching: Enhancing students' metacognitive skill through guided inquiry

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Adnan, Arsad Bahri

2018 Journal of Physics: Conference Series Vol. 954 Conference paper Cited by 16 Quartile

Abstract

This research was quasi experimental with pretest posttes non-equivalent control group design. This research aimed to compare metacognitive skill of students between tought by guided inquiry and traditional teaching. Sample of this research was the students at even semester at the first year, Department of Biology, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Universitas Negeri Makassar, Indonesia. The data of students' metacognitive skill was measured by essay test. The data was analyzed by inferential statistic of ANCOVA test. The result of research showed that there was the effect of teaching model towards metacognitive skill of students. Students were tought by guided inquiry had higher metacognitive skill than tought by traditional teaching. The lecturer can use the guided inquiry model in others courses with considering the course materials and also student characteristics. © 2018 Institute of Physics Publishing. All rights reserved.

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Department of Biology, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Universitas Negeri Makassar, Indonesia