The Effectiveness of A Field Study on Vertebrate Zoology to Improve the Mastery of Student Concept

摘要

Field study on vertebrate zoology is useful for students because students can observe many kinds of vertebrate species found in the location, get physical evidence directly in the form of documentation and describe the characteristics of the observed animals. Method of research used is quantitative descriptive. Techniques of data collections are pretest, posttest and questionnaires. Samples of research are 55 students. The data obtained are analyzed and described to get information as the results of the research. Based on the results of the process of data collected, it is found that the average pretest score is 17.164 and the average score of posttest is 23.709 The average score of N-Gain is 0.375 and the outcomes of the learning enhancement are put into a medium category. Based on the results of the research, it is inferred that the implementation of a field study on vertebrate zoology can improve the mastery of student concept, and with various limitations in the study, it is open to evaluation in order to improve the quality of lecturing process in class and the implementation of field study in the following semester.