Analysis of Genetic Misconceptions Student Biology Education at STKIP Persada Khatulistiwa Sintang

Abstract

During the learning process of genetic course, students were difficult to assess the material because of its abstraction. Genetics materials contained technical terms that cannot be memorized and pronounced easily by the students. Its concepts were hard to be understood because it does not provide a conceptual framework. Students were not deconstructed and construct the genetic knowledge by using their critical thinking and logical reasoning; it was make the concept of genetic were not understood correctly. Some of the wrong exist concepts about genetic are the students tried to keep concepts confidently that they have gotten when study in the previous level of education by reading and materials has taught in the school, it was said as misconceptions. The student’s misconceptions could be transferred to their students when they teach their students in the future. This is a qualitative research; it aimed to reveal the students genetic misconceptions. The samples of the research are 25 students in the 6th semester of biology education study program at STKIP Persada Khatulistiwa Sintang. The result of the research found that students misconceptions include the scope of genetic, genetic material, genetics of mendel, chromosome mutation, DNA