MOTIVASI BELAJAR FISIKA SISWA DI SEKOLAH MADRASAH TSANAWIYAH MELALUI PENERAPAN MODEL TALKING STICK

Abstract

This study aims to determine the increase of students' motivation in learning physics Madrasah Tsnawiyah (MTS) students. The subject matter chosen is sound and learning strategy used was talking stick models combined with cooperative learning. The research is a quasi-experimental study with a sample of 72 eighth grade students of MTS Hasanah Pekanbaru, divided into experimental group and control group. The instrument used for data collection was a learning motivation’s questionnaire with indicators: attention, relevance, confidence and satisfaction. From the descriptive analysis, it is found out that the students'
motivation in studying physics of experimental group is higher than the control group. Inferential analysis showed that there was significant improvement of students' motivation in learning physics at the 90% confidence level.