THE EFFECTIVITY OF INTERACTIVE MULTIMEDIA AS LEARNING MEDIA TO REDUCE STUDENT™S MISCONCEPTION ON HUMAN CIRCULATORY SYSTEM

Abstract

This study was aimed to analyze the student™s misconception on human circulatory system topic and
also to determine the effectivity of interactive multimedia to reduce students misconception that experienced
by students of XII IPA grade in SMA Negeri 1 Berastagi. The study consisted of two parts. Firstly is descriptive to
investigate student™s misconception on human circulatory system topic. Secondly quasi experimental research
used after learning process. Quasi experimental research used to determine the effectivity of interactive
multimedia in reducing student™s misconception. The experimental used one group pretest and posttest design.
Instrument that used for detecting students misconception were two dimensional diagnostic test and essay
test, for reducing students misconception by using interactive multimedia as learning media. Student™s
misconception reduce 42.46% in group that using interactive multimedia as learning media and reduce 14.8%
in group without interactive multimedia. Based on the calculation, it was got 0.57 as gain index value in group
that using interactive multimedia and 0.30 as gain index value in group without interactive multimedia. The ttest
result was tcount (6.598) and ttable (1.699), so tcount (6.598) > ttable (1.699). It was conclude that interactive
multimedia is effective to reduce student™s misconception on human circulatory system in SMA Negeri 1
Berastagi Class XII IPA A.Y. 2016/2017.
Keywords: Misconception, Students™ Misconception, Human Circulatory System