Sugiarti, Halimah Husain
This research is a quasi-experimental that aimed to compare the curiosity of students with discovery-based contextual models and direct learning models. The independent variables in this study are discovery-based contextual models and direct learning models, while the dependent variable is the students' curiosity in acid-base topic. The population in this study is all students of class XI MIA SMAN 1 Gowa, while the sample was class XI MIA 1 as experimental group I and class XI MIA 7 as experimental group II with the number of students each 30 people. The research data was obtained through an observation sheet and student activity sheet. The results of the descriptive analysis showed that the average value obtained by the experimental group I was 79 while in the experimental group II it was 68,63. The results of hypothesis testing using t-test values obtained at tcount = 5,99 and significance level a = 0,05 with df = 3 obtained ttable = 1,64. It shows that the curiosity of student that are taught by discovery-based contextual models was higher that their taugh by direct learning models in class XI MIA SMAN 1 Gowa on acid-base topic. © Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd.
Universitas Negeri Makassar, Kampus UNM Parangtambung, Jalan Daeng Tata Makassar, 90224, Indonesia
