Analysis of The Contextual Approach to The Subject of Ipas in The Independent Curriculum

Abstract

Background of this research is the low learning outcomes of students in several subjects, one of the causes is changes in the learning climate for students who previously used the 2013 curriculum to use the independent curriculum. It can be seen that the results of learning completion by looking at the students' daily test results only reached 57.3% which should have reached 85%. The contextual approach is an approach where the learning material is closely related to students' daily lives. This shows that this contextual approach is one of the supporting factors in improving student learning outcomes. It can be proven by several previous studies showing an increase in student learning outcomes in the learning process. The problem in this research is to determine contextual learning approach in the Independent curriculum in elementary schools. The research method used in this research is field research with a qualitative approach with a descriptive method which aims to explain systematically and according to existing facts, with data collection techniques through interviews, observation and documentation, and data analysis techniques through data reduction, data display, and drawing conclusions. Data validity techniques use member checks and triangulation techniques. The results of this research are a contextual approach to the independent curriculum in elementary schools, with observations that teachers have implemented the contextual approach well but not optimally. However, from the findings of this research, it was found that several stages of the contextual learning process starting from the planning stage and the implementation stage showed that the achievement of the (criteria for achieving learning objectives) was 70 in accordance with the agreement of the science teacher, according to the findings of the science score of 82.21% and the social studies score This 49.36% shows that the contextual learning approach is more effectively applied to science material.