Chemistry Teacher Responses to Digital Laboratory: Challenges and Opportunities to Create Chemistry Laboratory Information System in High School

Abstract:

This study was conducted to determine the responses of chemistry teachers in providing chemistry experiments and managing chemistry laboratories. A purposive survey method was used in this study by giving online questionnaires through google forms. A total of 30 chemistry teachers from Jakarta area had participated in this survey and 5 of them were selected to be interviewed. The research found challenges that chemistry teachers have tried to utilize various references technology platforms in conducting learning since pandemic Covid-19 affected although the majority of them have never participated in training, the assistance from laboratory technician in managing school laboratory is still low, laboratory facilities in some schools are still not adequate, time allocation is often limited to carry out chemistry experiments in the laboratory. These challenges focus on the problem of human resources, laboratory facilities, and the content of chemistry experiments that related to time allocation. Therefore, this is the right opportunity to think about the development and implementation of chemistry laboratory information system in high schools now and in the future.

• Periodical: Engineering Headway (Volume 25)
• Pages: 157-165
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/p-R9YvMn
• Online since: July 2025
• Authors: Nani Rahmah*, Ucu Cahyana, Ivan Hanafi
• Keywords: Chemistry, Digital Laboratory, Laboratory Information System, Teacher

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