'Faculty of Education and Teacher Training, Jambi University'
Doi
Abstract
The mathematics literacy abilities are strongly needed for the students to be able to face educational challenges from the cognitive aspects. The students' mathematics literacy abilities can be viewed from various dimensions, one of whixzch is the learning styles. The purpose of this research is to analyze the students' mathematics literacy abilities in inferential statistics subject based on the learning styles. This is a qualitative descriptive research. The subjects of this research are the fourth semester students at a higher education institution in Magelang, Central Java, Indonesia, who are currently taking inferential statistics course. The instruments used in this research are test and interview instruments. The data analysis is carried out through data reduction, data presentation, and drawing conclusions. The students’ mathematics literacy abilities with divergent learning styles are only able to arrive at the formulating step. The students’ mathematics literacy abilities with convergent learning styles are able to take the mathematical literacy processes. The students' mathematics literacy abilities in the assimilation learning style have come to the interpreting step, but they have not been able yet to solve the problems well. The students' mathematics literacy abilities in the accommodation learning style have been able to understand and check (formulating and interpreting) well but in preparing plans or arguing (employing stage) in solving the problems, it has not been achieved yet properly. Based on the research results, it is found that each different learning style has its own different mathematics literacy abilitiesKemampuan literasi matematika sangat diperlukan agar mahasiswa mampu menghadapi tantangan pendidikan pada aspek kognitif.Kemampuan literasi matematika mahasiswa dapat ditinjau dari berbagai dimensi, salah satunya gaya belajar. Tujuan penelitian ini untuk menganalisis kemampuan literasi matematika mahasiswa pada mata kuliah statistika inferensial berdasarkan gaya belajar. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian deskriptif kualitatif.Subjek dalam penelitian ini adalah mahasiswa semester IV pada salah satu perguruan tinggi di Magelang, Jawa Tengah, Indonesia yang mengambil mata kuliah statistika inferensial.Instrumen yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini berupa instrumen tes dan wawancara.Analisis data dalam penelitian ini dilakukan melalui reduksi data, penyajian data, dan penarikan simpulan.Kemampuan literasi matematika mahasiswa gaya belajar divergen hanya mampu sampai pada langkah formulating. Kemampuan literasi matematika mahasiswa gaya belajar konvergen mampu menempuh proses literasi matematika. Kemampuan literasi matematika mahasiswa pada gaya belajar asimilasi sampai pada interpreting namun untuk interpreting belum mampu menyelesaikan dengan baik. Kemampuan literasi matematika mahasiswa pada gaya belajar akomodasi sudah mampu memahami dan pengecekan dengan baik (formulating dan interpreting) namun dalam menyusun rencana atau mengemukakan alasan (tahap employing) dalam penyelesaian soal belum tercapai dengan baik.Berdasarkan hasil penelitian diperoleh bahwa setiap gaya belajar yang berbeda memiliki kemampuan literasi matematika yang berbeda-beda
