American International Journal of Social Science

ISSN 2325-4149(Print), ISSN 2325-4165(Online) DIO: 10.30845/aijss

The Strategies to Improve the Ability of Students’ Historical Explanation of SMA Negeri Surakarta Through the Digital Map Media Based on Problems
Monika Sari, Ahmad Arif Musadad, Nunuk Suryani

Abstract
One of the purposes of historical learning in Indonesia in the curriculum 2013 is not only about the cognitive knowledge but also the affective knowledge, that is able to implant the values occured in the past events so that is able to produce young generation who understands the nation’s history. To internalize the purposes, it is needed an interesting, creative and innovative teaching material to improve the ability of students’ historical explanation which relates to the technological development. The rapid development of technology requires educators to respond these changes by replacing the conventional media into digital media.The conventional media does not help in improving the ability of historical explanation. Therefore, the appropriate teaching material is needed in conveying the historical material, one of the teaching materials is digital-based teaching material. This research aims to compare the effectiveness of the use of digital map with PBL (Problem Based Learning) model towards the ability of students’ historical explanation when it is implemented in historical teaching. The samples of this research are 64 students in SMA Surakarta. To achieve the purposes, this research used true experimental design method with Posttest-Only Control design. The result of this research shown that the ability of students’ historical explanation is better through digital map media than by using conventional map. Based on the statistic data analysis of digital map media with PBL (Problem Based Learning) model is effective to improve the ability of historical explanation.

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