Stellarium as An Interactive Multimedia to Enhance Students' Understanding and Motivation in Learning Solar System

Abstract

This research aims to determine the effectiveness of Stellarium as an Interactive Multimedia to students' understanding and motivation in learning the solar system. This study used a quasi-experimental design. The research was conduct in one of the private schools in Bandung which the number of students is 41. The Objective Test Item and Questionnaire were used as the research instrument. These instruments were given to experimental and control class as pretest and posttest. According to the analyses result, the value of Normalized gain in the experimental class and control class is 0.33 and 0.2. According to the Independent sample test result, the hypothesis in this research was accepted. The value of sig (2-tailed) is 0.019 with a significance value is 0.05. Thus, there is different of students‟ understanding using Stellarium in learning solar system; The students‟ motivation in learning solar system using Stellarium is categorized as adequately motivated.