APPLICATION OF OMRON PLC TRAINER AS A LEARNING MEDIA ON ELECTRIC MOTOR INSTALLATION COURSE

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to find the improving of student learning outcomes in applying learning media Trainer PLC OMRON and software CX-Programmer on the Electric Motor Installation  Course (PLC) in Class XII TIPTL SMK Negeri 1 Bukittinggi. The design was quasi-experiment with one group pretest-posttest time series design. The subject were the student of class XII TIPTL SMK Negeri 1 Bukittinggi. The data were analyzed by using Gain score. In this study, the pretest and posttest were conducted twice, with the averages score of pretest 1 = 38,75, pretest 2 = 45,5, posttest 1 = 64,5 and posttest 2 = 85,8. These result indicate that the learning outcomes increase with the averages Gain score 1 = 0,407 categorized as medium, and Gain score 2 = 0,7625 categorized as high.