Abdul Kadir, Samrin, Marniati Kadir, Gufran Darma Dirawan
The purpose of this research was to determine; (1) differences in the environmental knowledge of students before being given the treatment of learning, (2) differences in the environmental knowledge of students before and after of learning treatment, and (3) the effect of science learning model in SETS concept to increase environmental knowledge of the students at KendariIslamic Junior High School. This research was conducted at Islamic Junior High School during three months enrolled in Academic Year of 2014/2015.This research is experimental with pretest-posttest control group design. The research population was all students of class VII consists of 9 (nine) class. The research sample determined by random cluster sampling technique, namely by choosing two classes to the needs of research, each class VII-2 with the number of students 34 people as an experimental class, and class VII-5 as many as 31 people as a control group. Other research instruments used were validity knowledge test and reliability. Data analysis technique used t-test at a significance level of 5% (after fulfilling the requirements of normality and homogeneity test).The results of this research is obtained that: (1) There is no significant difference in the environmental knowledge of students before being given treatment SETS learning models and conventional. (2) SETS learning model have a significant influence on the increase of the environmental knowledge of students. (3) There are significant differences of environmental knowledge of studentsafter given treatment SETS learning model and conventional. The level of environmental knowledge of the students using model SETS higher than students who use the conventional model atKendariIslamic Junior High School. © Serials Publications.
Islamic State Institute of Kendari, Indonesia; Islamic State Institute of Kendari, Indonesia; Islamic State Institute of Samarinda, Indonesia; Makassar State University, Indonesia
