An assessment on integration topic among form 5 students in Shah Alam, Selangor / Mariatulqibtiah Dollah

The objectives of this study were to determine student‟s performance in the topic of Integration and to identify the distribution of the common errors that often done by students. A total of 90 respondents were selected by using random sampling method. One school in Shah Alam was selected that is Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Jalan Kebun. Diagnostic test was used as the instrument of this study. It contains 17 subjective questions. The study also includes interviews of six students that get the lowest scores in the integration topic test. The student‟s mastery in the aspects of concept and method of Integration was done based on model of Skemp (1987). Besides, in the aspect of solving problems, this study was done based on model of Polya (1957) where it underlined four phase of problem solving. Meanwhile, in the analysis of common error, this study was done based on analysis error of Newman. The results indicated that the overall mean score for achievement of students is 43.87% which is in weak category. From the finding, the correlation between the indefinite integral and definite integral is positive and quite strong with r = 0.664. Meanwhile, the highest percentage of correct for strand 6 which is in finding definite integrals of algebraic expression are 71.1% and the lowest percentage correct for strand 8 which is in determining areas under the curves using definite integrals which are 12.8%. The interviews session was conducted and was found that there have three types of errors which are Conceptual Errors, Procedural Errors and Technical Errors.