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METODE
Dari semua siswa biologi kelas 3 (tiga) Sekolah Menengah, Ede Oballa, Nsukka di
Enugu, 131 siswa lambat dipilih berdasarkan hasil belajar sebelumnya, peringkat dan
komentar observasi guru dan siswa antar-peringkat. Peneliti kemudian mengamati kelompok
siswa lambat dalam pelajaran biologi masing-masing selama dua minggu. Strategi ini
membantu untuk memvalidasi informasi sebelumnya mengenai siswa yang lambat. 131 siswa
yang lambat kemudian dikelompokkan berdasarkan selisih jenis kelamin dan 124 dari mereka
secara proporsional dan secara acak sampel (Lk=62, Pr=62) untuk memastikan perwakilan
yang sama dari kedua kelompok jenis kelamin. Akhirnya 124 sampel diambil secara acak
dengan diberikan perlakuan ekspositoris dan peta konsep seperti disajikan pada Tabel 1.
Tabel 1: Distribusi Perlakuan Sampel dan Jenis Kelamin
Laki-laki
Perempuan
Total
Ekspositori
31
31
62
Peta konsep
31
31
62
Total
62
62
124
Instrumen
Sebanyak 30 soal pilihan ganda pre-test dari konsistensi internal 0,74 diukur melalui
Crombach alpha dikembangkan oleh peneliti.
Tabel 2: Hasil Uji-t Nilai Pre-test
Ekspositori
Peta konsep
N
62
62
X
11.27
10.85
SD
4.20
3.70
df
61
t
0.16*
N
62
62
X
16.25
23.24
SD
2.08
2.36
df
61
6.95*
N
31
X
17.9
SD
2.14
df
30
t
2.79
Peta konsep
31
21.2
2.01
KESIMPULAN
Berdasarkan hasil penelitian bahwa perbedaan jenis kelamin ada hasil belajar biologi
lambat siswa. Pembelajar lambat perempuan yang diajarkan dengan pendekatan peta konsep
dilakukan secara signifikan lebih baik (t=2,79; p<0,05) daripada siswa pria mereka. Pengaruh
yang signifikan ini mendukung temuan dari beberapa penelitian sebelumnya menunjukkan
bahwa metode konvensional instruksi tampak sangat tidak cocok untuk anak perempuan
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(Ruman, 1977; Grayhill, 1975; Kelly 2007; Lewis BF 2006, Lynch dan Peterson, 1989);
Jegede, Alaiyemola dan Okebukola 1990). Mungkin saja bahwa strategi metakognitif peta
konsep dapat digunakan untuk mengatasi kinerja berkaitan dengan jenis kelamin diferensial,
sehubungan dengan belajar dan hasil belajar di bidang sains.
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