Student Interest and Motivation towards Project-based Learning and their Contribution to Writing Achievement
| Main Author: | Kusmartini, Sri Endah |
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| Format: | Article PeerReviewed Book |
| Bahasa: | eng |
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| Online Access: |
http://eprints.polsri.ac.id/1778/1/Sri%20Endah%20Kusmartini%20p955-963.pdf http://eprints.polsri.ac.id/1778/ |
Daftar Isi:
- It is believed that Project-based Learning is very essential for the accomplishment of higher education students including Polytechnic students because it offers autonomy, collaboration and mastery in learning. In line with this, the researcher tried to explore student interest and motivation towards Project-based Learning and to examine their contributions towards the writing achievement of students. It was a quantitative correlational research conducted on 50 samples taken randomly. The research was conducted in the English Department Sriwijaya State Polytechnic in the academic year 2013-2014. There were two instruments used in this current research: a Measure of Student Interest and a Measure of Student Motivation. A Measure of Student Interest was used to measure student interest towards Project-based Learning and a Measure of Student Motivation was used to measure student motivation towards Project-based Learning. Meanwhile, writing scores taken from the archive of the English Department was used to describe the writing achievement of students. The hypotheses were tested by using Pearson Product moment Correlation Coefficient, Multiple Regressions, and One way ANOVA. The results showed that student interest and motivation in Project-based learning correlated significantly towards the writing achievement of students partially and simultaneously. Meanwhile, the difference in terms of gender towards the writing achievement of students was not significant. Therefore, the recommendations are to continue this Project-based Learning and to promote equal learning process between the two genders, especially in the course of writing.