52 and broad information about some topics. Associating process is a process where
the students cluster the information, so the students relate the information from the pre
vious processes with the certain events related to the topics and students’ experience then combine them into good memory. Therefore, they had
misconception about Scientific Approach because the respondents asked the students to make a project in this step while actually the suitable activities are
analyzing and comparing. In this process, both students and teachers should be active, but the
students should be more active. The activity that is usually conducted by the teachers is asking the students to compare the object that they have in the
observing process with a new thing. Therefore, they can use the information that they have got from collecting information process or experimenting process to
analyze or compare those things. In other words, students are to make clear conclusion using all information and observation result by combining and relating
them into specific information.
4. The Respondents Had Poor Capacity on Making Students Active
All of the respondents also experienced the same problem which was students
’ passivity. They found that the students that they taught in the school were not enthusiastic and active, especially when they were in the questioning
step. In this step, all of the respondents found their students to be passive and did not have willingness to ask some questions related to the topic or objects that were
observed. When the respondents asked the students whether they had any PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
53 questions, the students were still silent. The respondents needed to encourage the
students to ask or make some questions. Even when they had encouraged the students to ask, not all of the students would ask. Usually, they changed the role in
this step, so they would ask more frequent than the students because if they only waited, the students would not start to ask. Ant said that hisher students were not
really enthusiastic when having questioning step. There would be only one to three students who were willing to ask questions.
“Mereka enggak sering nanya-nanya cuma beberapa siswa mungkin Cuma satu dua tiga orang yang memang bener-bener fokus dan
memiliki antusias untuk belajar ya sering tanya…” Ant They don’t ask when having questioning step, only several students
who really focus and have willingness to study and ask. Ant
Moreover, Dt said that the students would answer if the teacher asked some questions. If the teacher let them to ask directly,there would be no students
who asked. “Jadi mereka baru mau jawab kalau sudah ada pertanyaan awal atau
pertanyaan dari gurunya.Tapi kalau misalnya diberikan kesempatan untuk bertanya langsung gitu belum ada.”Dt
So the students would like to answer when there had been questions from the teacher. When the teacher gave chances for them to ask, there
was no students who was willing to ask questions. Dt
The same with Dt, Gs said that the students tended to be silent when
having questioning step. Even when heshe asked some questions related to the material or topic, the students would not answer it. Therefore, Gs was not sure
whether the students could compose questions or not. “Karena yang terasa, karena saya mengajar di SMK atau gimana, tapi
menanya itu bahkan kadang-kadang kalau kita memberi pertanyaan PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
54 pun siswa belum tentu bisa menjawab, apalagi kalau siswa yang harus
menyusun pertanyaan, gitu” Gs
Maybe it was becasue I taught in vocational school. But, in the questioning process, when I gave some questions to the students, they
could not answer those questions. Moreover, it would be more difficult for the students if they had to make the questions. Gs
The respondents had poor capacity on making the students active and having willingness to ask. They usually found this problem when they were in the
questioning step. In that step, the respondents had bigger role because they were more active than the students. They even asked lots of things to the students but
unfortunately the students were still passive. They said that one or two students who participated in answering the questions from the teacher. In this process, the
participants conducted question and answer for the main activity. Question and answer activity meant that they directly asked questions for the students or
answered questions from the students without any media. Therefore, in this step, the respondents had poor capacity on making students active because they took
bigger role in this step and were not able to make the students ask question. In Scientific Approach,
actually the teachers’ role is as facilitators for the students. Teachers should guide and help the students to ask some questions related to the
topic. If oral activity could not be done easily, the respondents could use other ways like written and group activities. One example of questioning activity is
group working activity. The students are divided into some groups and after that teachers give chance for them to compose some questions related to the media or
objects that have been provided by the teachers. Then, the students are to exchange the result to other groups. Finally, the teachers should lead the
55 discussion and ask the students to state their argument. Therefore, there are some
other ways to make the students have willingness to ask. If the participants could not make the students active in the class, it means that their capacity on making
students active was still poor.
B. The Implications of the Problems faced by the Respondents
