Increasing Scientific Reasoning within Discussion of Scientific and Socioscientific Issues on Virus Topics

摘要

Scientific reasoning is useful in order to solving problems in life. The discussion of socioscientific issues has potential to improve students' scientific reasoning. This research aimed to determine the use of discussion of virus issues in scientific and socioscientific to improving students' scientific reasoning. This research used experimental method with two group pretest posttest design. Sample was students of class X SMAN 87 Jakarta in the academic year 2016/2017. Sample divided into experimental class I and experimental class 2. Each class consisted of 32 students. The learning process used two methods that are the discussion of scientific issues and socioscientific issues. The scientific reasoning abilities were excavated through the test in the form of essay. The results showed discussion method of socioscientific issues is better in improving students' scientific reasoning abilities than discussion method of scientific issue.