Influence of inquiry learning strategy and locus of control on students' environmental knowledge

Abstract

Environmental and natural resources damage has come to a very alarming level. For that, students should be given awareness to care for the environment. This can be done by providing understanding of the environment to the students, through a good learning strategy.The study aims to determine the environmental knowledge of students in schools that are the locus of control (high and low) and learning strategies (guided inquiry and open-ended inquiry). The variables into the research object are the environmental knowledge of students in the school (Y), and the Strategy of Learning Inquiry (X1) on locus of Control (X2). The population in this study is all students of the grade XI IPA Madrasah Alawiyah Alwathoniyah 43 North Jakarta, consisting of 3 classes with the number of each consisting of 30 students. Based on the results of the study can be concluded that there is influence of the strategy of learning inquiry and locus of control to the student's environmental knowledge. Furthermore, the results of the study explain that the knowledge of environmental students taught by Open-ended inquiry learning strategy will have a maximum value if used in the low locus of control group, while the high locus of control group Highest score when taught by the strategy of learning guided inquiry.