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5.2 Preliminary Review of Problem Analysis

The preliminary review of problems were able to identify a few issues. The issues found are
explained according to the methods used.

5.2.1 Observation Analysis
From the observations of students’ attitudes and behaviours during this learning class, it
was found that:
Most students gave their attention to the teacher’s explanation and responded to questions
given. This shows that the students are focused in class. There are students who make
notes and refer to the materials circulated to get the correct answer. However, students
depend completely on the material provided and unable to answer without referring to
it. Students were found to lack confidence in their ability to answer questions without
reference for fear of doing mistakes.

Diagram 5.2 Group activity - Discussion

Diagram 5.2 above shows students actively discuss the questions given. There are students
who quickly understand the lesson. Weaker students found the lesson difficult and could
not participate actively. From the group discussion observed, students were found to use
inaccurate terminology, and unable to recall points of elaborations. The elaborations were
later also found to be written in a disorganized manner.

In Diagram 5.3 below shows the analysis of students' answers in Whatsapp group
discussion. The student had written a wrong term for the Argon element as a simple
molecular structure rather than the monoatom structure. The student responded that he
did not remember the term of the argon structure. Other students were also found unable
to correlate the elaboration points causing their explanation to be irregular. This analysis
also shows students were unable to identify the trend in the graph of melting point thus the
explanation was not properly arranged.

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