Assessing Student Skills in Socio-Scientific Issue Decision-Making using RASCH Modeling

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10.2991/978-2-38476-410-5_54How to use a DOI?

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students’ skills; social-scientific issue; rasch model analysis; highlevel thinking skills

Abstract

Making accurate and scientific decisions is one of the high-level thinking skills that students need in the problem-solving process. This skill refers to the practice of thinking to make decisions based on certain considerations. This consideration is interpreted as the skill of students using their knowledge to solve problems and is therefore subjective. This study aims to assess students’ skills in making social-scientific issue (SSI) decisions using the Partial Credit Model (PCM) analysis approach of the Rasch model. This approach is based on individual-centered statistics, which allows researchers to estimate logit measures of student and item skills. The respondents were 121 chemistry students, who were asked to provide written responses to 18 open-ended questions. Responses were scored using a rubric, which was designed to measure the level of SSI decision-making skills. The study found that the SSI decision-making level of almost half of the students tended to be moderate, especially in considering options and strategies, while more than half tended to be at a low level, especially in giving consideration based on criteria. This finding reinforces the conclusion that in making SSI decisions, all respondents tend not to be based on consideration of the scientific knowledge they have learned.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Julhim S. Tangio
AU  - Lukman Abdul Rauf Laliyo
PY  - 2025
DA  - 2025/07/28
TI  - Assessing Student Skills in Socio-Scientific Issue Decision-Making using RASCH Modeling
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Sciences, Mathematics, and Education 2023 (ICOSMED 2023)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 525
EP  - 536
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-38476-410-5_54
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-38476-410-5_54
ID  - Tangio2025
ER  -