PENGARUH KONSELING KELOMPOK UNTUK MENINGKATKAN MINAT BELAJAR SISWA KELAS VIII SMP NEGERI 1 BANDAR LAMPUNG

Abstract

Interest in learning is a feeling of liking or pleasure in learning without encouragement or coercion from other parties and always pays attention when the lesson is in progress, has an interest in learning, students always repeat lessons that have been delivered, are active in learning activities. In Bandar Lampung, there are some students in class VIII IV&V who have low interest in learning, so efforts are needed to increase interest in learning through group counseling. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of group counseling services to increase student interest in class VIII SMP Negeri 1 Bandar Lampung.The research method used by researchers is a quantitative research method. The type of research used in this research is quasi-experimental or quasi-experimental. The form of experimental research used in this research is the One-Group Pretest-Posttest Design. The population of this study was students of class VIII SMP Negeri 1 Bandar Lampung. The sample to be studied by the researcher was class VIII IV&V of SMP Negeri 1 Bandar Lampung, which consisted of 8 students. Based on the results of the research and analysis that has been carried out on the effect of group counseling to increase the learning interest of class VIII students of SMP Negeri 1 Bandar Lampung, it can be concluded that the use of group counseling to increase learning interest is significant. This can be seen by comparing the value of sig = 0.000, which means it is smaller than α 0.05. Thus, Ho is rejected and Ha is accepted. This means that group counseling has an effect on increasing learning interest from Low to High with a significance level of 5% SMP Negeri 1 Bandar Lampung.