ANALYSIS OF STUDENTS’ ANSWERS TOWARD SOLVING PISA LIKE TEST WITH INDONESIAN CONTEXTS IN PHYSICS EDUCATION OF FACULTY TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION SRIWIJAYA UNIVERSITY

Abstract

The aim of research is to describe students’ answers toward PISA like tests with
Indonesian contexts. The research involved 35 students that consisted of 11 groups.
The total of Pisa like tests are five essay items.. The result of research showed that:
1) 54.54% of students’s answers related to temperature and dangerous elements in
volcano dust toward crop plants; 2) 36% of students’ answers related to waves and
frequencies to solve question: effects of earthquake that caused differences of level
distroys. 3) 27% of students’ answers related to kinds of gases that produced in the
volcano that reacted with rain water to solve question: effects of earthquake toward
acid rain; 4) 27.3% of students’ answers related to lack of diversity and poluttion to
solve question: effect of vegetation destroys caused of smoke; and 5) only 18.18%
of students’ answers related to abilities of CaCl2 solution to bond smoke to solve
question: function of CaCl2 to reduce smoke. The research was concluded that
67.28% of test items were not answered well based on answer keys.