The aplication of the constructivism approach in learning the skills of reading scientific articles in online journals

This study used an experimental method through a quasi-experimental path. This study aims to describe: 1) the mean skills of reading scientific articles in online journals that apply a constructivism approach with a question and answer system through special teaching materials in the control class; 2) the mean skills of reading online journal scientific articles that apply a constructivism approach without a question and answer system through special teaching materials in the treatment class. This research was conducted in 2 study programs at the Indonesian University of Education. The preparation and collection of data took place in March 2023 while the data analysis and writing of this article took place in April 2023. The subjects of this study were students of the Sociology Education Study Program who were assigned as the treatment class and students of the Communication Studies Study Program who were designated as the control class. The two classes in this study program have relatively the same pretest results. The experimental research instrument was a multiple choice test with 5 options for reading online journal versions of scientific articles. The tests are arranged following objective and systematic procedures so that a valid test instrument is obtained. Other instruments are special teaching materials which are arranged systematically according to the 5 phases according to Needahma in a constructivism approach as well as instruments for learning guidelines. The results showed that: 1) the skill of reading online journal scientific articles that apply a constructivism approach with a question and answer system through special teaching materials in the treatment class has a mean of 27.13; 2) the skill of reading online journal scientific articles that apply a constructivism approach without a question and answer system through special teaching materials in the control class has a mean of 25.46; there are differences in the skills of reading online journal scientific articles that apply a constructivism approach with a question and answer system and without question and answer; but have the same category.