Effectiveness of Practicum-Based Project in Enhancing Students’ Learning Outcomes in Plant Micro-Technique Courses

This study examines the effect of practicum-based project in improving students’ learning outcomes in plant microtechnique course. The research was conducted in the Biology Education Study Program at a public university in South Sumatra, Indonesia. The study involved Biology Education students (female=19; male=3), who contracted plant micro-technique courses. The research design used in this study is one-group pretest-posttest design. The data was collected using multiple choice test instruments with 25 questions that given before and after project-based practicum learning. Observations on the implementation of project-based learning processes are carried out using observation guidelines. The data of students learning outcomes were analyzed by calculating the average, percentage, and N-Gain. The results of the study showed that a practicum-based project can effectively improve students learning outcomes by an average of 70.78 (good category) and with n-gain 0.59 (moderate category). The results indicated that a practicumbased project can improve student learning outcomes in plant micro-technique courses.