THE INFLUENCE OF INQUIRY METHOD IN MOTIVATING THE SMP' STUDENTS

Abstract

This study was aimed at comparing the result of the students’ learning motivation by usinginquiry method and direct method and fi nding out the interaction between the learning method andthe goal of learning towards students’ learning motivation. This study used experimental methodwith the factorial design 2 x 2 (ANAVA).The population was consisted of 272 students of 8th gradeof SMP 1 Ngamprah. It was involved 8 classes; each class consisted of 35 students. This study usedpurposive sampling technique with two-way ANAVA. The results shows that the inquiry learningmethod is much better than direct learning method with 31,591 value and there is no correlationbetween learning methods and students' scores.