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The use of contextual learning to promote scientific literacy in science classroom: from the aspects of higher order thinking skills

Most studies found that Malaysian’s students have problems in scientific literacy as student’s ability to utilize science concepts, making conclusions and interpretation skills of scientific investigation in science classroom are still at a low level. Scientific literacy as a basic to foster complex...

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Main Authors: Abd. Raub, Latifah, Arshad, Mohammad Yusof, Rosli, Mohd. Shafie, A. Shukor, Nurbiha
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
Published: 2015
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L Education (General)
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spelling my.utm.622982017-05-30T02:22:16Z http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/62298/ The use of contextual learning to promote scientific literacy in science classroom: from the aspects of higher order thinking skills Abd. Raub, Latifah Arshad, Mohammad Yusof Rosli, Mohd. Shafie A. Shukor, Nurbiha L Education (General) Most studies found that Malaysian’s students have problems in scientific literacy as student’s ability to utilize science concepts, making conclusions and interpretation skills of scientific investigation in science classroom are still at a low level. Scientific literacy as a basic to foster complex thinking whereby formed based on the emphasis of higher order thinking skills such as problem-solving, decision making and science process. These skills encouraged students to develop concepts from variety topics and contexts of science and build a concrete relationship between the contents with their everyday context and situation. Meaningful learning is important for students to promote scientific literacy in science classroom. Thus, context based learning is said to be very relevant in learning and teaching process to develop scientific literacy among students. Context based learning emphasizes student-centered learning which underlined "need-to-know" basic to attract students to relate the concept learned with real-life context. However, only handful of studies is conducted probing into the need of context based learning approach to cultivate scientific literacy in science classroom. This study was conducted for investigate the effectiveness of contextual learning in improving scientific literacy skills from the aspects of student’s higher-order thinking skills. 2015 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/62298/1/MohammadYusofArshad2015_TheuseofContextualLearningtoPromoteScientific.pdf Abd. Raub, Latifah and Arshad, Mohammad Yusof and Rosli, Mohd. Shafie and A. Shukor, Nurbiha (2015) The use of contextual learning to promote scientific literacy in science classroom: from the aspects of higher order thinking skills. In: 1st International Conference on Educational Studies, 3-4 Jun, 2015, Johor Bahru, Malaysia. http://www.fp.utm.my/ices2015/home.asp
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topic L Education (General)
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Abd. Raub, Latifah
Arshad, Mohammad Yusof
Rosli, Mohd. Shafie
A. Shukor, Nurbiha
The use of contextual learning to promote scientific literacy in science classroom: from the aspects of higher order thinking skills
description Most studies found that Malaysian’s students have problems in scientific literacy as student’s ability to utilize science concepts, making conclusions and interpretation skills of scientific investigation in science classroom are still at a low level. Scientific literacy as a basic to foster complex thinking whereby formed based on the emphasis of higher order thinking skills such as problem-solving, decision making and science process. These skills encouraged students to develop concepts from variety topics and contexts of science and build a concrete relationship between the contents with their everyday context and situation. Meaningful learning is important for students to promote scientific literacy in science classroom. Thus, context based learning is said to be very relevant in learning and teaching process to develop scientific literacy among students. Context based learning emphasizes student-centered learning which underlined "need-to-know" basic to attract students to relate the concept learned with real-life context. However, only handful of studies is conducted probing into the need of context based learning approach to cultivate scientific literacy in science classroom. This study was conducted for investigate the effectiveness of contextual learning in improving scientific literacy skills from the aspects of student’s higher-order thinking skills.
format Conference or Workshop Item
author Abd. Raub, Latifah
Arshad, Mohammad Yusof
Rosli, Mohd. Shafie
A. Shukor, Nurbiha
author_facet Abd. Raub, Latifah
Arshad, Mohammad Yusof
Rosli, Mohd. Shafie
A. Shukor, Nurbiha
author_sort Abd. Raub, Latifah
title The use of contextual learning to promote scientific literacy in science classroom: from the aspects of higher order thinking skills
title_short The use of contextual learning to promote scientific literacy in science classroom: from the aspects of higher order thinking skills
title_full The use of contextual learning to promote scientific literacy in science classroom: from the aspects of higher order thinking skills
title_fullStr The use of contextual learning to promote scientific literacy in science classroom: from the aspects of higher order thinking skills
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