MULTIMEDIA-ASSISTED DIRECT INSTRUCTION LEARNING MODEL ON STRUCTURES AND FUNCTIONS OF PLANTS TISSUE

Abstract

This research was intended to find out students’ level of understanding on the concept of
structures and functions of plant tissue through implementation of multimedia-assisted
direct instruction learning model. This study was conducted from June 2014 to February
2015. This research was carried out in an experimental, pretest-posttest control group
design. The population in this study was students from class XI.IA1 to XI.IA5 inSenior
High School1 Bandar Baru, Pidie, Indonesia, with the total of 125 students. The samples
were determined by purposive sampling technique, and further divided into two classes,
namely experimental class (XI.IA1) and control class (XI.IA2) consisting of 24 and 25
students. The data was collected by giving test consisting of 50 validated questions. It was
obtained that the t-test value was higher than t-table value (10,81 > 2,01) at level of
significance = 0,05. In brief, students’ understanding on the concept of structures and
functions of plant tissue had been improved through the implementation of multimediaassisted
direct instruction learning model.