THE EFFECTIVENESS OF USING DEVELOPED PROBLEM BASED LEARNING TOOLS ON GENERAL PHYSICS II OF PHYSICS STUDENT, STATE UNIVERSITY OF MEDAN

This study aimed to describe: (1) the effectiveness of the product development of problem-based learning tools to improve learning outcomes of general physics II among the student of Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Science, and (2) students' learning motivation after using problem-based learning tools. The learning tools used in this study are: (1) general physics textbook II, (2) problem-based student worksheet general physics II, and (3) a set of test results in general physics II. This type of research is a quasi-experimental design "one group pretest-posttest design". The populations of this study were students in physical education class I, State University of Medan. The sample was selected randomly numbered 30 people. There are two forms instruments used which are the test results of learning and motivation questionnaire. To analyze the data, it is used the gain normalization test and percentage. The results of this study illustrate that the use of product development software is quite effective problem-based learning (<g> = 0.56) in improving learning outcomes general physics II, and make the students sufficiently motivated (72.83) to learn more general physics.