The Effect of Implementing Problem Based Learning on the Result of Students’ Learning at School

Abstract

After natural disasters, such as earthquakes, the community and schools’ conditions wereuncontrolled and unconducive. Students could not carry out the learning process as before. Anxiety and fearcame to students when in school. This study explained about the implementation of problem based learningon students at a shelter school after earthquake and the effect towards their learning outcomes. This studyaimed to know the effect of problem-based learning on students’ learning outcomes after an earthquakehappened. Problem based learning brought students closer to the problematic context. This researchcompared the effect of problem based learning as well as the conventional teaching on 2different groups fromdifferent emergency schools. The total number of the subject research was 120 students. The results of thestudy showed a positive influence on students’ learning outcomes. In the learning process of problem basedlearning, students were brought closer to real problems in their environment and fostered a sense ofconfidence.