Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University Jakarta
Abstract
This study aimed to reveal the difference of the basic ability of scientific work development between students who are teached using discovery learning and conventional learning. This study used quasy experiment with The Non Equivalent Pretest-Posttest Design. The subyek which are 58 VIII grade students in one of junior high school in Palu City are chosen with simple random sampling. Data were collected by observation sheets (check list) and were analyzed by normality, homogenity, and t-test using IBM SPSS Statistic 22 program. The result shows that the significance of Sig (2-tailed) is 0.00 < 0.005, which means that H0 is rejected and H1 was accepted. In addition, the data of the basic ability of scientific work development showed that the value for students teached by the discovery learning model is 58.28% and students teached by the conventional learning model is 47.13%, so it can be concluded that there is a significant difference on the basic ability of scientific work development between students who are teached using discovery learning and conventional learning in the material of sight and optical devices