STUDENTS’ MOTIVATION AND ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT IN A “FLIPPED” GENETICS LESSON USING YOUTUBE VIDEO

Cece Sutia
1Cece Sutia, Indonesia University of Education, SMAN 1 Parongpong, INDONESIA,

Abstract

The flipped classroom is a pedagogical model in which the typical lecture and homework activities are reversed. This study aims to describe students motivation and academic achievement in a “flipped” genetics lesson using YouTube video. The subject of this research are 40 high school students in West Bandung regency, Indonesia. Seven days before learning activities, students are asked to watch a video of the genetic materials on YouTube which is already determined by teacher. While in face-to-face class, students are given the opportunity to ask questions about the concepts that have been learned at home and discussed it in small group with the teacher's guidance. Data was collected using observation sheets, cognitive tests and motivations’ questionnaires. The results showed that 87.5% of students passed formative test ( = 79.85) and students’ motivation scores were at least as high ( = 3.10). The results of this study indicate that the implementation of flipped classroom can stimulate students’ motivation in keeping the attention during lesson and students feel very satisfied in participating learning activities. Implementation of flipped classroom gives discretion to the students to perform learning independently so the slow learners have more time to redo the video learning until they have better understanding of the concepts presented.

Keywords: flipped classroom, genetics lesson, students’ motivation, academic achievement.