Improving Student Learning Outcomes through the Application of Civics Inquiry Learning: An Experiment in the Second Grade Social Class at SMA Negeri 7 Manado

Abstract

This study aims to determine the differences in student learning outcomes taught by inquiry learning models and conventional learning models. This research is a quasi-experimental study using the Pre-Test - Post-Test Control Group Design. The subjects in this study were the classes XI IPS 3 as an experimental class consisting of 32 students, and XI IPS 5 as a control class consisting of 32 students in the Manado 7 High School in the academic year of 2018–2019. The data obtained showed differences­­ between the pre-test and post-test results in the control class and the experimental class, with an average of 57 experimental class learning outcomes and an average control class learning outcome of 46.625. The normality test data is fulfilled with normally distributed data. The results of the data analysis showed a real level of 0.05 was obtained and then rejected. Based on the results of these studies, it can be concluded that the learning outcomes of students taught with inquiry learning models are better than the learning outcomes of students taught with conventional learning models.