Effectiveness of Student – Centered Learning to Increase Learning Motivation of Students in Inventory Assessment Class

Abstract

Learning motivation is crucial for student in order to master the specific field and to accomplish achievements for students who take Inventory Test Class. Student-centered Learning (SCL) aim to overcome the weakness in previous conventional method by assigning students as the center of the learning in class. This research aim to find the effectiveness of student-centered learning to increase the learning motivation of student in Inventory Assessment Class in major of psychology, Faculty of Medicine, Lambung Mangkurat University in South Kalimantan, Indonesia. This study aims to determine the effectiveness of student-centered learning to improve students' learning motivation in Inventory Assessment Class. Participants were 34 students in Inventory Assessment Class. The experimental method using a quasi experiment with the one group pretest and posttest design analyzed by paired sample t-test. The researcher measured the learning motivation scale at pretest, the SCL program for 12 sessions, then gave posttest. Results showed the value of t = -3.997 (p <0.01) which means that the SCL learning method with role-play and simulation effectively increases student learning motivation.