An important goal of physics instruction is to facilitate the students to become an effective problem solver. However, researchers reveal that students’ physics problem solving skills is quite low. In this respect, we have implemented modeling instruction to improve students problem solving skills in the topic of heat and temperature. The instruction has been piloted to 55 students of grade 12 of a high school in Batu, East Java. The students’ problem solving skills have been assessed using a rubric of problem solving developed by Docktor & Heller. By using mixed-methods, pretest-posttest analyses we found that the students’ problem solving skills increased with N-gain of 0.80. In addition, the students reasoning to solve the problems also improved from pretest to posttest.

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