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Based on the background that has been explained before, this research focused on “How does students‟ scientific inquiry skills improve during Junior
High School?”.
Research questions that will be satisfied in doing this research are: 1.
How is the improvement of students‟ scientific inquiry skills from grade 7 to 9?
2. How isare the effect of curriculum implementation towards improvement of
scientific inquiry skills during junior high school?
D. Limitation of problem
1. This research focused on measuring the improvement of students‟ scientific
inquiry skills during junior high school, from grade 7 to 9. 2.
This research also will investigate effect of curriculum implementation towards scientific inquiry skills from grade 7 to 9.
3. Scientific inquiry skills which will be measured here are based on stages of
scientific inquiry suggested by Wenning 2007: 22.
E. Research Objectives
Objectives of the research are: 1.
Investigating improvement pattern of students‟ scientific inquiry skills from grade 7 to 9.
2. Investigating if there isare any effect of curriculum implementation toward
scientific inquiry skills of junior high school students.
F. Significance of Research
1. Students involved in this research hopefully can be get used with question
that requires inquiries skill and can train their thinking skill. Their experience in working with their mind will be richer rather than doing
exercise with content-based assessment instrument.
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2. This research can hopefully assist teacher to define in which stage of
scientific inquiry the junior high school students are, so that teacher can prepare and conduct science teaching based on students apperception,
readiness, and initial abilities both in content mastery and scientific inquiry skills.
3. School administrator may use the data as consideration for making school
policy about teaching and learning program, especially in implementing curriculum to enhance scientific inquiry skills.
4. Hopefully, finding of this research can assist future researcher that having
research interest about scientific inquiry skills or inquiry-based learning, and generally in science education.
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CHAPTER III METHODOLOGY
A. Research Method and Research Design
1. Research Method
Large number of students was involved in this research, so it met the requirements to be said as quantitative research. No treatment was
given during data collection. A set of instrument was used to measure scientific inquiry skills improvement of junior high school students.
Shortly, quantitative descriptive method Creswell, 2011; Gay et al., 2009 has been administered in this research.
2. Research Design
It used survey research design, which is a procedure in quantitative research in which investigators administer a survey to a sample or to the
entire population of people to describe the attitudes, opinions, behaviors, or characteristics of the population Creswell, 2011:377.
As explained in Creswell 2011, the type of survey design that has been used here was cross-sectional survey design, where 3 groups of
junior high school students consist of 7
th
grader, 8
th
grader, and 9
th
grader will be compared. Inferential statistics is needed to draw an inference
about condition that exist in a population from study of a sample drawn from the population Minium, 1993: 3.
B. Population and Sample
This research was conducted in two schools. School A is a junior high school located in Bandung, while school B is a junior high school located in
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Bogor. School A was implementing KTSP while school B is implementing Cambridge IGCSE curriculum.
Population covered by this research is all students of those schools, from grade 7 until 9, while the samples are representatives of each grade from
each school. Random sampling technique was conducted. According to the
information given by teachers in each school, the distribution of high and low achievers are even in each class there were no high achiever nor low achiever
class. This homogenous distribution makes the researcher much easier to take the sample.
Here is the amount of sample taken to represent the population in this research.
Table 3.1 - Sample Amount Involved in Data Collection
C. Operational Definition
