Effect of Learning Strategies and Independence of Student Learning Outcomes Learning Science Skin Disease and Sex

Abstract

The objective of this research is to study the effect of instructional strategy and learning independency toward learning outcome in Dermatology studies. The research was conducted at the Christian University of Indonesia, with 58 university students as samples, selected randomly. And using experiment method with 2 x 2 factorial design. Finding of the research are as followed: (1) learning outcomes of the students with cooperative strategy are higher than those who received expository strategy; (2) there is interaction between instructional strategy and learning independency of the students; (3) learning outcomes of the students with high learning independence are higher when cooperative strategy is used than when they learn with expository strategy (4)learning outcomes of the students with low learning independence are higher whencooperative strategy is used than when they learned with expository strategy. Result ofthe research showed that students’ learning outcomes on Dermatology studies couldbe improved by applying appropriate instructional strategy with considering universitystudents’ capability.