Knowledge of Physics Subject Teachers Toward Pedagogical Aspects in Public High Schools in Lhokseumawe City

Abstract

In the education quality survey issued by the PISA (Program for International Student Assessment),
Indonesia is ranked 72nd out of 77 countries. The Teacher Competency Test (UKG) results in Indonesia
are still low and still far from being targeted by the government, especially in Aceh province Aceh at the
national level is still heartbreaking by being the second lowest in Indonesia. Seeing the problems faced by
education in Indonesia, to improve the quality of education, the quality of teachers must be improved
first, one of which is by increasing the pedagogical competence of teachers. This study aims to know the
pedagogical knowledge of physics teachers in SMA Negeri Lhokseumawe which includes aspects of
learning planning, aspects of learning methods and aspects of learning evaluation. The research was
conducted in the form of a survey with the population of this study was to take the entire physics subject
teachers at SMA Negeri Lhokseumawe, totaling 7 (seven) schools with 28 physics teachers. The samples in
this study were 3 schools that were taken by simple random sampling, namely 8 physics teachers at SMA
Negeri 2 Lhokseumawe, 3 physics teachers at SMA Negeri 5 Lhokseumawe, and SMA Negeri 7
Lhokseumawe with 2 physics teachers. The results showed that the physics teacher's knowledge on the
learning planning aspect was in the category of having good knowledge, meanwhile the physics teacher's
knowledge on the learning method aspect already had a fairly good knowledge, while the physics teacher's
knowledge on the learning evaluation aspect also had fairly good knowledge. So it can be concluded that
physics teachers in the pedagogical aspect are in a fairly good category, meaning that most physics teachers
already have a pretty good knowledge of pedagogical aspects.