The effectiveness of 7E learning cycle model to improve student motivation in work and energy topic

Abstract

Motivation determines students’ learning creativity through the learning behavior presented in the class. This research was done to indicate the effectiveness of 7E learning cycle model implementation in order to increase student motivation during learning about work and energy. The research was pre-experimental study with one group pretest and posttest design. It used purposive sampling to select the research sample with criteria of previous students’ cognitive score on the last learned topic. The data were collected using motivation questionnaire which has been validated and the result of reliability test was 0.826, which was categorized high. Parametric tests such as N-gain and t-test were used to analyze the data. The results showed that the average score of motivation at the first stage was 59.86 and increased to 89.54 at the final stage with N-gain of 0.72, which represented the improvement of student motivation as high category. The t-test also showed tcount> ttable (9.574 > 2.052), thus there was significant difference between initial and final motivation. According to the results, it can be concluded that the implementation of learning cycle 7E model was effective to be used to improve student motivation in learning about work and energy.