IMPLEMENTATION OF SOCIO-SCIENTIFIC ISSUES LEARNING MODEL TO INCREASE STUDENT’S ACHIEVEMENT IN ENVIRONMENTAL KNOWLEDGE COURSE

Abstract

To increase student’s achievement that connect between biology content and social context life, students need to be involved in Socio-Scientific Issues (SSI) learning model. In doing so, involving 29 students majoring Biology Education enrolled in Environmental Knowledge course, to observe student’s achievement. Data were collected through test and observation, and then analyzed using qualitative descriptive technique. The findings reported that student’s achievement were increased toward SSI learning model (N-Gain= 0,4)