Abstract

This exploratory research aims to describe the metacognitive profile of ITB STIKOM Bali students in calculus problem solving based on gender. The subjects in this study were 1 female ITB STIKOM Bali student who tends to have a feminine character with the initials Subject 1, and 1 male ITB STIKOM Bali student who tends to have masculine characteristics with the initials Subject 2. Selection of subjects was conducted through math ability tests and gender questionnaires. There were 2 research instruments, namely the main instrument was the researcher self and the auxiliary instruments were TKM (Mathematics Ability Test), TPMK (Calculus Problem Solving Task), interview guidelines, Gender Questionnaire. The selection of this research subject can represent the population of ITB STIKOM Bali students who take the Calculus course because it is in accordance with qualitative research procedures, in which an in-depth analysis to the characteristic similarity of the research subject and there was a linkage to the object under study. Retrieval of research data was conducted through task-based unstructured interviews. The validity testing of the data used time triangulation. Data analysis through several stages, (1) valid data input, (2) data categorization / classification, (3) data reduction, (4) data display / data presentation, (5) data interpretation, (6) conclusion. Based on the results of the analysis, it showed that female and male ITB STIKOM Bali students have the same profile of metacognitive abilities in calculus problem solving, the difference appears when each student stated the reasons for the process of solving calculus problems.