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The correlation between students’ interest and learning outcomes in biology

2020; IOP Publishing; Volume: 1460; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1088/1742-6596/1460/1/012072

1742-6596

Elija Rizki Dahliani, Hafnati Rahmatan, DJUFRI DJUFRI,

STEM Education

Abstract This study aimed to determine the correlation between students’ interest in learning biology with student learning outcomes in SMTA Banda Aceh. This research was conducted on October to December 2018. This research used quantitative and qualitative approaches with survey methods. Learning outcomes were obtained from grade ten report card in 2018. Research parameter was to see the correlation between students learning interest with student learning outcomes. The study population was all 404 students of nine grade IPA of SMTA in Banda Aceh. Purposive sampling was used for gaining sample consisting of 192 respondents. The data analysis used Product Moment Correlation with a significance level of α 0.05. The results of the study was that there was a significant correlation between students learning interest in learning biology with the learning outcomes of students in SMTA Banda Aceh with a mark of r = 0.229 at SMA N 5 Banda Aceh, a mark of r = 0.246 at SMA Insyafuddin Banda Aceh, a mark of r = 0.040 at MAN 1 Banda Aceh City. The conclusion of this research that it was found a significant correlation between students learning interest in learning biology with students learning outcomes in SMTA Banda Aceh.