E. Pratiwi, T. Nusantara, Susiswo, M. Muksar
The aim of this study is to reveal the thinking process of elementary school students when experiencing cognitive conflict. This type of research is qualitative descriptive research and the data collection is from this research through test questions, direct observation and in-depth interviews on the subject of research. Problems given to students are non-routine questions in the form of open-ended questions that have more than one solution. The subjects of this study were two students who experienced cognitive conflicts, based on direct observation of the subjects who experienced curiosity, confusion, and thinking longer. The results showed that the thinking process that occurs when students experience cognitive conflict, are namely: (1) students can perform assimilation process to integrate the perception or new experiences into schemata, and (2) there are three stages of students' process of the accommodation, that is: first the students experience a lack of mastery of the conception they have, then create a new conception that is easy to understand, and then the conception is used to solve the problem by providing a sensible answer. The conclusion in this research is that there are stages in the process of accommodation that do not happen, that is: students who do not start with a sense of dissatisfaction, in this case, the initial conception that has been owned by students by the information provided. © 2019, Primrose Hall Publishing Group.
Department of Mathematics Education, Universitas Negeri Malang, Jl. Semarang No.5, Malang, 65145, Indonesia
