Analysis of Student’s Visual Thinking Difficulties in Learning Using PBL Models with Metacognitive Approach

Abstract

This study aims to find out: 1) Improvement of students 'visual thinking skills after being taught by using a problem-based learning model with a metacognitive approach, 2) Indicators of students' visual thinking abilities are more dominant after using the problem-based learning model with a metacognitive approach, 3) To find out the difficulty of students who are able to think visually in solving problem. This research belongs to the type of descriptive qualitative research. The research subjects were 23 students. The instruments in the data collection process were interview guidelines and test sheets. This study uses data collection techniques including test methods, interview methods and documentation. The results of the research process found that student difficulties as follows: 1) Weaknesses in calculating, 2) Difficulties of students in transferring knowledge, 3) Understanding of mathematical language is lacking, and 4) difficulties in visual perception. Factors that cause students to experience difficulty in solving visual thinking questions are as follows: 1) Factors that cause students to experience difficulty in solving problems are difficulties experienced by students in arithmetic operations, 2) Factors that cause students to experience difficulties in transformation are the ways of student learning that is only memorizing formulas that result in quickly forgetting, and lack of practice working on problems.

Keywords : analysis, visual thinking skills, visual thinking, PBL models, metacognitive approaches.

DOI: 10.7176/JEP/11-21-02

Publication date:July 31^st 2020