Peningkatan Motivasi Belajar IPA Fisika Siswa Melalui Penggunaan Media Asli Di Kelas VIII SMP Negeri 32 Pekanbaru

Abstract

This study aims to describe differences in students' increased motivation to learn physics through original media with the use of conventional learning on eighth grade students of SMP Negeri 32 Pekanbaru second semester of academic year 2012/2013 on materials Optical. This research was conducted with pretest-posttest study design Control Group Design. The research subjects were students of a class that implements VIII4 original media and VIII3 grade students as a conventional class. Instruments used in the data collection was a questionnaire consisting of ARCS motivation indicators Attention, Relevance, and Satifaction confidance. Data were analyzed students' motivation to learn physics through descriptive analysis. Results of data analysis, for a class that uses the original media obtained an average score of students' motivation to learn physics after learning of 2.94 to a high category. As for the conventional classroom learning obtained with an average score of 2.75 students' motivation to learn physics with high category. From the data analysis it can be concluded that the students' motivation to learn physics by learning higher than the original media using conventional learning.