DECISION-MAKING ABILITIES OF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL STUDENTS ON SOCIO-SCIENTIFIC ISSUES BASED ENERGY MATERIALS ASSISTED BY SCRATCH APPLICATION MEDIA

The background of this research is the students' low involvement in decisionmaking, especially on energy materials which have an impact on their low decisionmaking ability. The purpose of this study was to determine the extent to which the scratch application-based learning media influenced the students' decision-making abilities on energy materials. The research method used was an experiment with one group pretest-posttest design. The subjects of this study were the fifth graders of an elementary school in one of the cities in West Java, Indonesia, totalling 144 students which consisted of 51 male students and 93 female students. The instrument used in this study was a test following the indicators of students' decision-making abilities. The results of this study showed that there is a significant mean difference in the students' decision-making ability between the pretest and posttest in energy materials learning using scratch application-based media and based on the analysis results, the mean score of each indicator with the lowest improvement is the indicator of identifying alternative decisions to solve problems. Meanwhile, the indicator of decision-making ability with the highest improvement is analysing the causes of problems from various factors.