The enhancement of spatial levels reviewed from students’ cognitive styles

Abstract

Space ability can be interpreted with the ability of spatial. The Great Indonesian Dictionary mentions that spatial is anything related to space or place. It can be interpreted that the students’ spatial ability demands their ability to understand the visualization of abstract objects or objects in the minds of students. This spatial capability itself will require the mastery of its geometric capabilities. Students’ geometry ability mastery can be supported by the improvement of his cognitive style of how to receive, organize, process information and then organize them based on their experiences relating to how they think and solve the problems. The purpose of this study was to examine the differences in spatial ability among students with the cognitive style of Field Independent with Field Dependent on learning Anchored Instruction. Population of this research was all students of class X IPA SMA Negeri 1 Takengon Regency of Central Aceh in the academic year 2016/2017. The samples of the research were 2 classes; those were X IPA 1 and X IPA 2, with the number of students was 30 for each class determined by purposive sampling. Data analysis was done by using descriptively quantitative. To know the difference of mean was by using t test of two samples. From the calculation results, it was concluded that there was no difference of spatial ability between students with cognitive style of Field Independent with Field Dependent, there was no difference of spatial ability between students with cognitive style Field Independent in class X IPA 1 with cognitive style Field Independent on learning Expository X IPA 2, There was no difference of spatial ability between students with cognitive style of Field Dependent in class X IPA 1 with cognitive style of Field Dependent in class X IPA 2.