Abstract:
The development of Education curriculum today demand to encourage students learning achievement,
based on Kepmendiknas no. 232 / U / 2000 and no. 045 / U / 2002 AIPNI which had been
successfully implemented competency-based curriculum (CBC) undergraduate education since 2008.
Therefore, Nursing Program of Hang Tuah Pekanbaru Health School in the 2012 began implementing
CBC. The aim of this study was to compare the Implementation of curriculum CBC and
Conventional with the students GPA in Nursing Program. The research design used in this study was
a causal comparative study. The samples in this study were 53 students with CBC system and 48
students conventional system. The analysis was used univariate analysis with the frequency
distribution of the average GPA of students in semester 1st and 2nd, bivariate analysis with chi-square
and independent t-test. Analysis chi-square was used to know the relationship between curriculum
systems and students GPA.The results of this study obtained p value = 0.019 <0.05, which means that
there were a relationship between the applications of the CBC with a GPA of students achievement.
For comparison used for the independent t-test comparing students with GPA of students at CBC and
Conventional and get p value 0.029 <α (0.05). From these results it appears that the implementation of
the curriculum system of CBC gave effect to a better direction in improving the achievement of
students.
