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Abstract

This study was aimed to identify the significant differences of social studies learning result between a group of students who used local genius based contextual approach and a group of students who used conventional learning approach. The design of this study was quasi experiment with non equivalent pretest-posttest only control group design. The population of this study was students of all grade eight which consists of 97 students. Purposive sampling technique was used to get the samples for this study. The experimental group was class VIII C and the control group was class VIII D. The researcher got the data of the students learning result by administering test which consisted of 20 questions of multiple choices. Independent sample t-test was used to analyze the data. From the result of this study, the researcher concluded that there was significant differences of students learning result between students who used local genius based contextual approach and students who used conventional learning approach. It can be seen from the result of t-test which used independent sample t-test.T-value was higher than T-table, (2.811>1.679).

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