Student Perception of Online Quizzes and Interview Pretest Implementation in Pre-Practicum Activity

Elisabeth Dian Atmajati1*, Yosep Dwi Kristanto2 and Albertus Hariwangsa Panuluh1
*d.atmajati@gmail.com
1Physics Education, Universitas Sanata Dharma, Yogyakarta
2Mathematics Education, Universitas Sanata Dharma, Yogyakarta
DOI: 10.24071/seadr.2019.21

Abstract: A practicum is activities that can improve student’s scientific skill. However, students sometimes do not prepare themselves before practicum activities, so pre-practicum activities are needed to help students prepare themselves. This study wanted to find out students’ perceptions about pre-practicum activities in the form of online quizzes and interview tests. The samples in this study were students who took the Modern Physics Experiment. At the first meeting, students directly conducted practicum without any pre-practicum activities. The second meeting, they must answer questions that have been prepared in the google form (online quizzes) one day before conducting the practicum. The third meeting, the students conducted a direct interview pretest before the practicum. Afterward, they filled out a questionnaire to be able to compare which pre-practicum methods were most helpful in preparing the practicum activities. The results obtained more than half of total students preferred the online quizzes pretest method, more than quarter of total students chose the interview pretest, and the rest wanted no pre-practicum activities. Then to support the results, interviews were conducted with several students. Students choose the online quizzes pretest as a pre-practicum activity because it can help them prepare themselves before conducting a practicum and it doesn’t take much time because it can be done at home. While the interview pretest method takes a lot of time to practicum, other than that nervous factors make it difficult for them to answer well.

Keywords: perception, pre-practicum, online pretest, interview pretest

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Student Perception of Online Quizzes and Interview Pretest Implementation in Pre-Practicum Activity

Atmajati, E. D., Kristanto, Y. D., & Panuluh, A. H. (2020). Student Perception of Online Quizzes and Interview Pretest Implementation in Pre-Practicum Activity. In Y. D. Kristanto, A. H. Panuluh, B. Utomo, & P. Angelina (Eds.), Companion Proceedings of the 7th South East Asia Design Research International Conference (SEADRIC 2019) (pp. 150–154). Yogyakarta: Sanata Dharma University Press. doi: 10.24071/seadr.2019.21


Atmajati, Elisabeth Dian, et al. “Student Perception of Online Quizzes and Interview Pretest Implementation in Pre-Practicum Activity.” Companion Proceedings of the 7th South East Asia Design Research International Conference (SEADRIC 2019), edited by Yosep Dwi Kristanto et al., Sanata Dharma University Press, Yogyakarta, 2020, pp. 150–154.


Atmajati, Elisabeth Dian, Yosep Dwi Kristanto, and Albertus Hariwangsa Panuluh. “Student Perception of Online Quizzes and Interview Pretest Implementation in Pre-Practicum Activity.” In Companion Proceedings of the 7th South East Asia Design Research International Conference (SEADRIC 2019), edited by Yosep Dwi Kristanto, Albertus Hariwangsa Panuluh, Beni Utomo, and Patricia Angelina, 150–54. Yogyakarta: Sanata Dharma University Press, 2020. https://doi.org/10.24071/seadr.2019.21.


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