DIFFERENCES INSTUDENTS LEARNING OUTCOMES AND RETENTION WHO ARE ASSIGNED WITH CONCEPT MAP AT THE END OF THE TEACHINGPROCESS INS MAN 3 MEDAN ACADEMIC YEAR 2013/2014

The objectives of this study are to find out whether : (1) assigning with conceptmap at the end of teaching process affect students learning outcomes (2)assigning with concept map at the end of teaching process affect studentsretention. This research is a quasi experimental study. In conduct of research,involved two different treatments and then see the differences of the result of thetreatment on students learning outcomes and students retention. This researchincluded in the experimental research is cluster sampling. The sample in thisresearch is class X MIA 4 (SMAN 3) which totaled 32 students who are assignedwith concept map in the end of teaching process (experiment class ) and class XMIA 5 (SMAN 3) with 32 students as the control class. The Instrument used fordata collection were multiple choice. The data were anlayzed by applyingIndependet t-test and Ms Excel with the level of significance α = 0.05. The resultof hypothesis test showed that : (1) assigning with concept map at the end ofteaching process significantly affect students learning outcomes (tcalculate = 4,341 >ttable = 1.998) it can be concluded that learning outcome class which used conceptmap higher than the class without used concept map. (2) assigning with conceptmap at the end of teaching process significantly affect students retention (tcalculate =5,324 > ttable = 1.998) it can be concluded that retention score in which the studentswere assigned with concept map was significantly higher than students score incontrol class.