Design of Application Thesis Detector for Student of Mathematics

Education Department of IAIN Palopo

Muhammad Hajarul Aswad A and Rosdiana

Department of MathematicsEducation, Institut Agama Islam Negeri (IAIN) Palopo, Agatis 91914, Palopo, Indonesia

Keywords: Thesis Detector, Trend of Research, Microsoft Visual Studio.

Abstract: This research is aimed to design the application of thesis title of Mathematics Education Department of Institut

Agama Islam Negeri (IAIN) Palopo. The caused by the management of thesis title is still manually, not based

on the characteristics of the thesis that has been there and the development of the concept of Mathematics

Education research. Applications designed based on Microsoft Visual Studio that will be able to provide

information to students about research topics so often that the system will suggest taking another research

topic. The data is thesis research of Mathematics Education Department from 2013 until 2017. The

information is then tabulated based on the type (Quantitative, Qualitative, Classroom Action Research,

Research Development, and Field Research), the focus of research (learning outcomes, learning motivation,

model/ method/ approach/learning strategy, and other variables), and research location. The designed

application works well. The result is that the students of Mathematics Education Department most often do

quantitative research with the focus of research in learning outcomes of mathematics. SMP Negeri 8 is the

location most often used. The design of the application allows two things: the title is accepted and can continue

as research or title is rejected and recommended for other titles

1 INTRODUCTION

Students should take research titles that have novelty.

Moreover, the Department of Mathematics Education

of IAIN Palopo is influenced by mathematics,

education, and Islamic content. Students should be

able to propose a variety of research titles

To guarantee the quality of student research, this

study tries to design a thesis detector application that

can be used to detect the title of research to be taken

by students. It will be seen whether the title of the

research has novelty or not based on existing

research. Application design is done using Microsoft

Visual Studio.

There are few studies applied Social Network

Analysis (SNA) to see the relationship between each

research topic (Chen et al., 2016), analyze research

trends in competition (Jeon et al., 2016), investigate

the evolution trends of network structure of learners

within a course forum in a university’ online learning

platform (Liu et al., 2018) or investigate research

trends based on content analysis (Erdogan, 2015).

The other studies tried to find out the research

trends in Environmental Education in Korea. This

research shows that the author suggests that the range

of practices in environmental education has changed.

This result by comparing article was published in the

early 2000s and 2010s (Kim, 2017). A content

analysis was implemented to describe and quantify

the methodology trends in the published articles in

2005-2015 in 15 journals indexed by Turkish

Academic Network and Information Center(Akdemir

and Yagiz, 2016). The others used scientometric

methods to analyze trends of science education

research from four journals from 1990 to 2007. This

study found that the research topic of Conceptual

Change & Concept Mapping was the most studied

topic. This study also finds that embedded in the most

cited references, the supporting disciplines and

theories of science education research are

constructivist learning, cognitive psychology,

pedagogy, and philosophy of science (Chang et al.,

2010).

This research provides a descriptive content

analysis of thesis topic were published between 2013

to 2017. This study is valuable and different from

previous studies in two aspects. First, this research

provides a descriptive of thesis topic by type of

research, focus, and research location. Secondly, this

research designs an application Thesis Detector to

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Design of Application Thesis Detector for Student of Mathematics Education Department of IAIN Palopo.

DOI: 10.5220/0008523904740478

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find out the similarity and providing

recommendations about the title of research that

should be taken.

2 THE INTRODUCTION OF

THESIS DETECTOR

The management of the title proposal in the

Department of Mathematics Education has been done

manually. As a result, sometimes several titles have

almost the same topic. Standard Operational

Procedure (SOP) submission of titles in the

Department of Mathematics Education can be seen in

Figure 1.

Figure 1: SOP Submission of Titles in the Department of

Mathematics Education.

Based on Figure 1, activities two and three are

carried out manually. It results in staff and faculty not

having a proportional time to do other work. Whereas

currently, less than 1% of students aged 15 years and

over say they have never used a computer (OECD,

2010). That is, most students are already familiar with

computer-based management. Also, academic

information systems can improve the effectiveness

and efficiency of school educational management

(Purwanto, 2017), with records of software,

hardware, and human resources must meet standards

(Prasojo, 2006)

The application designed in this study can later be

used by students, staff, and head of the Department of

Mathematics Education to document the research title

while maintaining the novelty of the student's

research. In the end, the management of the title of

the research in the Department of Mathematics

Education will be based on computer assessment.

This can motivate students because the assessment

process involves the advancement of information and

technology. The ability to utilize motivated student

skills and involve them as a stakeholder can often

result in more efficient and cost-effective successes

unattainable by faculty, staff, and administrators

alone(Myers et al., 2018).

The object of this research is all the title of the

thesis of the student of the Department of

Mathematics Education starting from 2013 to 2017.

The object then becomes a database in the thesis

detector application. The instrument is

documentation of student research titles. Each

research title then tabulated based on (1). Types of

research: quantitative, qualitative, classroom action

research, development research, and field research,

(2). The focus of the research is the keywords of each

research, and (3). Research location.

Thesis detector application is designed using

Microsoft Visual Studio version 10. How the

application works as shown in Figure 2.

Figure 2: Flow Chart of Thesis Detector.

3 RESULT AND ANALYSIS

3.1 Summary of Type, Focus, and

Research Location

The results showed that the thesis research title of the

Department of Mathematics Education from 2013 to

2017 amounted to 356 research titles. Of this amount,

the type of research that is most widely carried out is

quantitative research. The most important research

focus often raised is the problem of learning

outcomes, cooperative learning models, and learning

motivation. Junior High Schools (SMP) are the most

frequently used research locations. More about the

results can be seen in Figures 3, 4, and 5.

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Figure 3: Number of Type of Research in the Department

of Mathematics Education IAIN Palopo.

Figure 4: Number of Focus of Research in the Department

of Mathematics Education IAIN Palopo.

Figure.5: Number of Location of Research in

Department of Mathematics Education IAIN Palopo.

This research showed that the top two research

topics in the department of mathematics education are

quantitative and action research. This result is similar

to Oktay research which the research design trend of

the published articles in ELT is quantitative research

(Akdemir and Yagiz, 2016). This is because math is

related to numbers. In some cases, mathematics

students tend to experience limitations in describing

a phenomenon or event. the negative impact is that

the research topics studied tend to be monotonous

Top two focus of research in the Department of

Mathematics Education IAIN Palopo is learning

outcomes and cooperative learning. This result is

more or less similar to (Gul and Sozbilir, 2016). This

is because students are still thinking too practical.

Students have not identified other problems besides

learning outcomes problems. They argue that

cooperative learning models can solve the problem of

learning outcomes in general.

The most research location is junior high school.

It similar to (Gul and Sozbilir, 2016). This is because

the profile of graduates of the department of

mathematics education IAIN Palopo is to come a

teacher who can solve problems at junior and senior

high school.

3.2 Designing Application Thesis

Detector

The database in this application is all the title of the

thesis of Department of Mathematics Education

starting from 2013 to 2017. Microsoft Visual Basic

designed the application. The maximum limit is 20%

of the amount of data available in each category. This

amount will change and be adjusted for each

graduation period.

Figure 6: Home Interface of Application Thesis

Detector.

Figure 7: The Command Window if The Research

Rejected.

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Figure 8: The Alternative Research Title Suggested

by Application.

The function of the application was tested by the

black box testing method. The working principle of

this method is only to check the functionalities of the

application. The test results can be seen in Table 2

below:

Table 2: The Test Results by Black Box Methode.

System

Function

Test Item

Result

Rejection

of thesis

title

 Login user

 Input design

of research,

focus, &

location > sum

of database

 Succeed

Accepted

of thesis

title

 Login user

 Input design

of research,

focus, &

location < sum

of database

 Succeed

Students and admin can use this application. The

application works based on the comparison of the

input given to the existing database based on the type

of research, focus, and location of the study. The

system will provide a "Research Title Denied"

recommendation if one of the three categories passes

the maximum amount. If not, the system will give a

comment "Research Title Received: which means it

can be followed up to become research.

4 CONCLUSIONS

This research has described the state of the title of the

student's research based on three categories, namely

the type of research, focus, and location of the study.

Quantitative research is the type of research that is

most often carried out by students, while the most

frequent research focus is on learning outcomes. SMP

is the most research location, in this case, SMP Negeri

8 Palopo. The application to detect and provide

recommendations on the title of the research has been

designed using Microsoft Visual Studio. This

application will work based on a database that must

be updated regularly following the graduation period.

The development of this application is still very

possible by expanding categorization and improving

its decision-making system.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

This paper is supported by Lembaga Penelitian dan

Pengabdian kepada Masyarakat (LP2M) Institut

Agama Islam Negeri (IAIN) Palopo.

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