Inquiry learning in practice: it’s impact on understanding the concept and motivation of visual impairment students

Abstract

Visual impairment students have limitations on the use of visual abilities, so they are difficult to learn physics that requires the role of active sense of sight. Therefore, students with visual impairment need a model and learning media that can maximize their sense of touch and hearing. Thereby strengthening understanding concepts, and the motivation of learning physics. The purpose of this study to determine the impact use from inquiry learning model to understand the concept and motivation of visual impairment students. The advantage of Inquiry learning are can trains students to discover their own concept obtained from the experience that they gained. This research design is action research to improve the conceptual understanding and motivation of the students. Data collection techniques used observation, interviews, and questionnaire given. The data analysis used qualitative descriptive method. This study was conducted for three meetings. The results of this study made the students became active, the concept understanding and motivation became increase. Its indicates that the model of inquiry learning that given in this research had a positive impact to impairment students.