Chemistry Teacher Responses to Digital Laboratory Management: Challenges and Opportunities to Create Chemistry Laboratory Information System Nani Rahmah (a*), Ucu Cahyana (b), Ivan Hanafi (c)
*Universitas Negeri Jakarta
nani.rahmah39[at]gmail.com
Abstract
Since the COVID-19 pandemic era has forced chemistry teacher to use virtual laboratory in supporting chemistry experiment in limited situation. This study was conducted to investigate the response of chemistry teachers in using chemistry virtual laboratory including how they manage it in digital management. A purposive survey method was used in this study by giving online questionnaires through Google form containing 20 open questions about chemistry learning and practicum conducted by the chemistry teachers. The data were collected for a week at the beginning of April 2023. A total of 30 chemistry teachers from Jakarta area participated as respondents. The result found that chemistry teachers had tried to utilize various technology platforms in conducting learning. Moreover, most of them faced difficulty to arrange the lab-work activities and did nothing. Some teachers try to find lab-work multimedia instead of real activities. However, the multimedia commonly did not make students pertain the processes skills. Since the pandemic could not be predicted when it will finish, this is a kind of challenges and opportunities to think about implementing online chemistry learning from now and then.
Keywords: Laboratory information system- Digital laboratory management- Chemistry laboratory- Chemistry teacher
