The effect of guided discovery learning on student self-efficacy

Abstract

The aimed of this research is to describe the effect of guided discovery learning on student self-efficacy. This research is quasi-experiment with pretest-posttest design. The research samples consisted of 34 of 200 students. The data collected by using self-efficacy questionnaire that has been declared valid by the expert team. The data analysis used t-test. The criterions of effective are 1) posttest score is higher than pretest score; and2) the proportion of student self-efficacy that reaches very high and high category is more than 70%. This could be happened because students' self-efficacy in filling the self-efficacy questionnaire has increased. The result of this research showed that guided discovery learning is effective on student self-efficacy based on those three criterions.