Journal of Innovation in Educational and Cultural Research
Vol 3, No 4 (2022)

Students' Written Communication Skills in Science Learning

Annisa Al Fatihah (Natural Science Study Program of Postgraduate School, Universitas Riau, Indonesia
MTs Negeri 4 Bengkalis, Riau, Indonesia)

Y Yennita (Natural Science Study Program of Postgraduate School, Universitas Riau, Indonesia)
Dedi Futra (Natural Science Study Program of Postgraduate School, Universitas Riau, Indonesia)



Article Info

Publish Date
22 Aug 2022

Abstract

Communication skills are one of the skills needed by humans in the 21st century. Mathematical communication skills are very important for every student to have, this is useful so that students can understand the problems in science learning given and students are able to express their ideas in solving these problems. This study aims to describe the level of students' written communication skills in science learning. The type of research used is survey research. The sample of this research was 53 respondents of class VIII MTsN 4 Bengkalis. Data collection were techniques in the form of giving a test totaling 10 questions. The questions used refer to 4 aspects of communication skills, namely, 1) Changing the form of data presentation, 2) The accuracy of the use of notation, vocabulary, sketches, graphs, tables, and pictures, 3) The suitability of writing problem-solving steps, 4) Making conclusions. The average percentage of students' written communication skills for each aspect and each indicator is; 1) 72,96 for indicators changing the presentation of data, 2) 44,03 for indicators using graphs, tables, and diagrams, 3) 24,29 for indicators explaining events or experimental results and 4) 47,88 for concluding. In all aspects of written communication, the average score obtained is 47.29, which is included in the poor category.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

jiecr

Publisher

Subject

Education

Description

This journal publishes research articles on various innovation education that are interesting and have an impact on the development of education. The journal publishes articles on interdisciplinary content and cross-field dimensions related to education from various cultural perspectives. The ...