BLENDED LEARNING TO ENHANCE STUDENTS MOTIVATION IN VOCATIONAL SCHOOL

Ahmad Syafii, Patuan Raja, Ari Nurweni

Abstract


Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui apakah terdapat perbedaan yang signifikan dari motivasi siswa kejuruan sebelum dan sesudah aplikasi blended learning. Penelitian ini merupakan kajian kuantitatif yang menggunakan one group pre-test post-test design. Sampel penelitian ini terdiri 26 siswa kejuruan yang dipilih secara purposive. Instrumen yang digunakan adalah kuesioner motivasi. Paired-sample t-test digunakan untuk menganalisis perbedaan yang signifikan dari motivasi siswa kejuruan. Hasil analisis menunjukkan bahwa terdapat perbedaan yang signifikan dari motivasi siswa sebelum dan sesudah blended learning, dengan nilai t-ratio 6.468 yang berarti lebih tinggi dibandingkan dengan t-table 2.056. Berdasarkan temuan tersebut, dapat dijelaskan bahwa blended learning masih merupakan salah satu cara yang direkomendasi untuk meningkatkan motivasi siswa kejuruan karena memberikan banyak kesempatan untuk bisa mengeksplorasi kebutuhan dan potensi mereka, demikian juga fleksibilitas waktu dan tempat yang membuat siswa bisa mengunjungi kembali materi belajarnya dengan mudah dan nyaman.

This research was aimed to find out whether there is a significant difference of the vocational students motivation before and after blended learning. This research was carried out using a quantitative study with one group pre-test post-test design. The subject number of 26 vocational students was taken purposively. The instrument used was the motivation questionnaire. This study used paired-sample t-test to answer the significant differences of students motivation. The result of the analyses indicated that there was a significant difference of students' motivation before and after blended learning, within t-ratio 6.468 which means that it was higher than t-table 2.056. Based on the findings, it is perceived that blended learning is still one of the advocated ways to enhance the vocational students motivation since it provides a lot of opportunities to explore their needs and potentials, as well as place and time flexibility for learning which enables the students to revisit the language easily and comfortably.

Keywords: blended learning, enhance, motivation


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