GAYA BELAJAR BERDASARKAN GENDER DAN HUBUNGANNYA DENGAN HASIL BELAJAR IPA PADA SISWA SMP

Abstract

The study aim was to describe the learning style based on gender and its correlation with students learning achievement. The type of research used is qualitative descriptive. The research samples were 259 students of class VIII SMP Tanjung Karang Barat sub-district that were selected by purposive sampling. The research data were learning styles and learning achievement, that were obtained from questionnaires and written tests, data were analyzed descriptively and statistically using different test Mann-Whitney U and Kendall's Tau correlation test. As a result, auditory learning styles more dominant than the visual and kinesthetic learning styles. On test Mann-Whitney U there was no significant difference between the auditorial learning styles of male and female students. There was significant differences between visual learning styles and kinaesthetic learning styles between male and female students. There was no significant correlation between learning styles with learning achievement of male and female students.

Penelitian bertujuan untuk mendeskripsikan gaya belajar berdasarkan gender dan hubungannya dengan hasil belajar siswa. Jenis penelitian yang digunakan adalah deskriptif kualitatif. Sampel penelitian adalah 259 siswa kelas VIII SMP se-Kecamatan Tanjung Karang Barat yang dipilih secara purposive sampling. Data penelitian berupa gaya belajar dan hasil belajar, diperoleh dari angket dan tes tertulis pilihan jamak, dianalisis secara deskriptif dan statistik menggunakan uji beda Mann-Whitney U dan uji korelasi Kendalls Tau. Hasilnya, jumlah siswa dengan gaya belajar audiotorial lebih dominan dibandingkan gaya belajar visual dan kinestetik. Pada Uji Mann-Whitney U tidak terdapat perbedaan signifikan antara gaya belajar auditorial antar siswa laki-laki dan perempuan, terdapat perbedaan signifikan antara gaya belajar visual dan gaya belajar kinestetik antar siswa laki-laki dan perempuan. Tidak terdapat korelasi yang signifikan antara gaya belajar dengan hasil belajar pada siswa laki-laki dan perempuan.

Kata kunci: gaya belajar, gender, hasil belajar, pembelajaran IPA