STUDI PERBANDINGAN PENGGUNAAN MULTIMEDIA DAN MEDIA SEDERHANA PADA HASIL BELAJAR KIMIA SISWA SMA

This research aims to find out the difference between learning outcome from multimedia class and simple media class of students in teaching atomic structure. Background of this study is because of the characteristic very abstract; we need more effort for construct the atomic concept in student’s idea specially in using media. As a basic concept, if we wrong to comprehend the atomic idea, there will be very difficult to study about chemistry. So, the concept was very important. This is a quasi-experimental study with a pretest – posttest control and one-school study case. There are three class with 38 students of SMAN 1 Padangsidimpuan Timur at 2008-2009 academic year in each class as the population of this study. There only two class with random sampling used as sample of this study; Class A/X1 (using multimedia in teaching atomic structure) and B/X3 (using simple media in teaching atomic structure). The instrument of this study is the test that already valid and reliable. The data were analyzed by t test. The result showed that multimedia is more effective than simple media {count (4,15) > table (1,99)}.