Online Learning During The COVID-19 Pandemic: Development of Digital Module to Improve Analytical Skill

Abstract

The Covid-19 pandemic has caused learning activities that were originally carried out face-to-face in schools to be shifted to online learning. The implementation of online learning has several challenges, one of which is the development of student skills in the 21^st century, especially analytical skills. Students' analytical skills are needed in learning physics. Students' analytical skills are currently still in the low category. To support the improvement of students' analytical skills, teaching material in the form of a digital module is applied. The purpose of this study was to examine the role of digital modules to improve students' analytical skills during the Covid-19 pandemic online learning period. The research was carried out using a qualitative descriptive method with 23 students as the subject of a high school in Karanganyar Regency, Indonesia. The study used a quantitative descriptive method with a test technique using 10 essay questions based on three indicators of analytical ability. Data were analyzed using N-gain and paired t-test. The results showed that the average value of analytical ability before using the digital module was 57.84, while the average value after using the digital module was 72.81. Based on the value of N gain, the increase in students' analytical skills on three indicators is included in the moderate category, namely > 0.3. The digital module has a significant effect on improving student analysis.