ANALYSIS OF STUDENTS SCIENTIFIC CONSITENCY AND REPRESENTATION CONSISTENCY ON RECTILINEAR MOTION KINEMATICS MATERIAL GRADE X IN SMAN 8 PEKANBARU

Abstract

This study wasaimed to describe the level of student scientific consistency and representation
consistency of
class X SMA Negeri 8 Pekanbaru on rectilinear motion kinematisc material. The type of research was
survey research. The subject of this research were 70 students. The data collection of this
research used test, instrument of research used scientific consistency and representation
consistency test the form of objektive matter which consist of 21 question wiht seven themes, each
theme consist off three question with the same concept but presented in different representatiton.
Descriptive analysis was used to analyze the data which showed the level of scientific consistency
and representation consistency. The results showed that thepercentage of student at each scientific
consistency level was 14.29% for consistent scientific, 20.00% for moderately consistent scientific
and 65.71% for inconsistent scientific, while overall the students were at inconsistent levels for
scientific consistency or that can be said they have no consistencyscientific. For representation
consistency, the percentage ofstudents at each successive level was 17.14% for consistent
representation, 28.57% for moderately consistent representation and 54.29% for inconsistent
representation, while overall students were at moderately consistent representation level, mean
that studentshave consistencyrepresentation.