The Influences of Outdoor Learning Process (OLP) on Conceptual Understanding and Environmental Concern: Implementations on the Ecosystem Subject

Abstract

This research aims to determine the influences of Outdoor Learning Process (OLP) on conceptual understanding and environmental concern of tenth grade students on Ecosystem subject. It was conducted on tenth grade students of SMA Negeri 1 Bintan Utara 2017/2018 with quasi experiment method used the Pretest-Posttest Non-equivalent Control Group design. One subject group was given a specific treatment (experimental) and the other one as the control group. The influence of OLP method as independent variable and conceptual understanding and environmental concern as dependent variables. The results showed, there is a significant influence between learning by using the OLP and the conceptual understanding. On the other hand, there is no significant influence between learning with OLP and the environmental concern. In experimental group, the average level of the conceptual understanding increased from the 65.72 up to 76.38. Results of analysis, value of 0.000074, this value is smaller than significance value of 0.05. Hence, there is a significant influence of learning by using OLP on the conceptual understanding. Result of analysis of environmental concern, is bigger than significant of 0.05 that is 0.064. It means that there is no significant influence between learning with OLP and the environmental concern.