PENGARUH PENERAPAN PEMBELAJARAN KONTEKSTUAL TERHADAP PEMAHAMAN KONSEP MATEMATIS SISWA

Abstract

This research aimed to know the effect of the implementation of contextual learning to student’s mathematical conceptual understanding. The research design was pretest posttest control group design. The research population was all students of grade 8^th of regular class of SMPN 1 Sumberejo Tanggamus in the academic year of 2013/2014 as many as 161 students who were distributed into five classes. The research samples were students of VIIIA and VIIIB class which were taken by purposive random sampling technique. The research data were obtained by the test of mathematical conceptual understanding. Based on the result of hypothesis test, the students mathematical conceptual understanding with contextual learning was higher than conventional learning. Thus, it was concluded that the implementation of contextual learning affect the student’s mathematical conceptual understanding.

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui pengaruh penerapan pembelajaran kontekstual terhadap pemahaman konsep matematis siswa. Desain penelitian adalah pretest posttest control group design. Populasi penelitian ini adalah seluruh siswa kelas VIII reguler SMPN 1 Sumberejo Tanggamus tahun pelajaran 2013/2014 sebanyak 161 siswa yang terdistribusi dalam lima kelas. Sampel penelitian adalah siswa kelas VIIIA dan VIIIB yang diambil dengan teknik purposive random sampling. Data penelitian diperoleh melalui tes pemahaman konsep matematis. Berdasarkan hasil uji hipotesis, pemahaman konsep matematis siswa dengan pembelajaran kontekstual lebih tinggi dari pembelajaran konvensional. Jadi, disimpulkan bahwa penerapan pembelajaran kontekstual berpengaruh terhadap pemahaman konsep matematis siswa.

Kata kunci: pemahaman konsep matematis, pembelajaran konvensional, pembelajaran kontekstual