THE STUDENTS’ MOTIVATION TO PREPARE FOR NATIONAL EXAMINATION AT SMA NEGERI 02 BATU
THESIS
This thesis is submitted to meet one of the requirements to achieve the Sarjana Degree in English Education
By:
SAFARAH TRI WARDHANI 06360131
MUHAMMADIYAH UNIVERSITY OF MALANG FACULTY OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT JANUARY 2011
This thesis written by Safarah Tri Wardhani was approved on January 27, 2011.
By:
Advisor II Advisor I
This thesis was defended in front of the examiners of Faculty of Teacher
Training and Education of University of Muhammadiyah Malang
and accepted as one of the requirements to achieve
Sarjana Degree in English Education
on January 27, 2011
Approved by:
Faculty of Teacher Training and Education
University of Muhammadiyah Malang
Dean,
Drs. H.Fauzan, M.Pd
Examiners: Signatures:
1. Drs. Hartono, M.Pd 1. ………
2. Drs. Sudiran, M.Hum 2……….
3. Drs. Jarum, M.Ed 3……….
4. Drs. Soeparto, M.Pd 4……….
MOTTO AND DEDICATION
You are what u thinks
So, you must believe that you are the
winner
If you believe it,
You’ll be the big winner
DEDICATED TO:
My beloved parents
My Father (Naam Winarno),
My Mother (Aminah
),
My Brothers,
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Alhamdulillahi Rabbil A’lamin,
All praises be to Allah SWT for His endless mercy, favor, and guidance till
the writer can finish this thesis. May peace and blessing always be poured upon the
great prophet Muhammad SAW.
The writer is much indebted to those who have kindly given their uncountable
support, help, and motivation to her in completing this study. In this opportunity, the
writer would like to express her best appreciation and great gratitude to:
1. Drs. Jarum, M.Ed and Drs. Soeparto, M.Pd, for their extensive guidance,
comment, suggestion, patience, support, and willingness to correct numerous
mistakes in this thesis.
2. Dra. Fardini Sabilah, M.Pd, the Head of English Department, for her support
and guidance.
3. The lecturers of the English Department who have given the writer lots of
knowledge.
4. The headmaster, all the teachers, and students of SMAN 2 Batu for their
cooperation and information in completing this research.
5. All persons who have directly participated in the efforts of completing this
research, especially for Lily, Ifa, Hasta, Dila, Okta, Ully, Anis, David, Lia,
Fizi, and all friends whose names could not be mentioned one by one.
However, the writer realizes that her paper is still far from being perfect.
Malang, 20 January 2011
THE STUDENTS’ MOTIVATON TO PREPARE FOR NATIONAL
EXAMINATION AT SMA NEGERI 2 BATU
ABSTRACT
National examination (UN) is the way of Indonesian government to know the students’ skill in mastering the lessons. UN becomes the problem for students. So, motivation is needed by students to face UN because motivation can increase the activity to study. Without motivation, the students do not have spirit to study. Therefore, the researcher wants to investigate about (1) the students’ motivation to prepare for national examination at SMA Negeri 2 Batu, and (2) what the students do to motivate themselves in preparing for national examination at SMA Negeri 2 Batu.
In this study, the researcher applied descriptive research because the researcher wants to describe the phenomena of students’ motivation and to get information about what the students do to motivate themselves in preparing for UN. The population in this study was the twelfth grade students of SMA Negeri 2 Batu consisting of six classes. The researcher used cluster random sampling and took XII IPS 1 which consists of 36 students.
Based on the result of data analysis, it was found out that 3 students (8.3%) had very high motivation, 25 (69.4%) students had high motivation, 6 students (16.7%) had average motivation, 1 student (2.8%) had low motivation, and 1 student (2.8%) had very low motivation. Based on the result of compotation of mean score, it was found out that the students got the mean score of 69.6. It means that their
motivation to prepare for national examination was high. Besides, the mean of
extrinsic score (35.1) more dominant than intrinsic score (34.5). Some ways that were by students to motivate themselves in preparing for national examination was found. First, studying hard was done by the students to preparing for UN. Second, the students always prayed. Third, the cram and try out program were followed. Fourth, the students discussed about the lessons with other friends.
Key word: (National Examination, Motivation)
The Advisor I, The Writer,
Drs. Jarum, M.Ed Safarah Tri W.
LIST OF CONTENTS
CHAPTER I : INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background Study ... 1
CHAPTER II : REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE 2.1 Meaning of Motivation ... 5
2.2 Mashlow’s Hierarchy of Needs ... 6
2.3 Types of Motivation ... 8
2.4 The Function of Motivation... 9
2.8 Standard Graduate of UN ... 13
2.9 The Relationship of Motivation with UN... 13
CHAPTER III : RESEARCH METHODOLOGY 3.1 Research Design ... 14
3.2 Population and Sample ... 14
3.3 Data Collection ... 15
3.4 Data Analysis... 17
CHAPTER IV : RESEARCH FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION 4.1 Research Findings... 19
4.2 Discussion... 21
LIST OF TABLES
1. The Classification Score for Students’ Motivation ... 18
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CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background of the Study
Nowadays, development of science and technology is very fast. This phenomenon
results in many competitions in our life, especially in education. To solve that problem,
the people need human resource that has a good quality. One way of Indonesian
government to get a good quality is by increasing the quality of education, like National
Examination (UN). UN is the way of Indonesian government to know the students’ skill
in mastering the lessons. Every year, national examination has a different standard to
graduate the students. The government hopes that national examination can increase the
quality of education in Indonesia.
UN becomes the problem for many people, especially students. The students feel
that their scores only will be decided from 3 days when UN is carried out. The students
feel afraid of UN but they know that UN is the way to make them study hard, for
example many students follow try out and take a course. Course and try out are the ways
to increase students’ motivation in learning activity.
Many explanations are used to describe motivation. According to Mc. Donald
(1959), motivation is an energy change within the person characterized by affective
arousal and anticipatory goal reactions. Motivation becomes impeller for someone to
reach the purposes. It means that motivation is very important, motivation is the concept
a student who doesn’t have motivation although they have the same condition and skill.
Good or fail result in learning activity is decided partly by motivation.
In fact, every people have different motivation one from another. Any students
study to get knowledge but any students study because they feel afraid of their the
parents. It means that motivation is influenced by intrinsic and extrinsic factors. Intrinsic
factors appear from self determinatison. Extrinsic factors appear because external
influence like as teacher and parents.
Motivation is needed in education because it can increase the activity to study.
One factor of passing national examination is how the students can motivate themselves.
The students will study hard if they have a big motivation.
There have been some researches dealing with motivations. One was done by
Lismarta (2009) who has researched the first year student’s motivation in learning
English at SMK Negeri 3 Pamekasan. The result of the research showed that there were
29 students (48.3%) who got the scores of motivation 70-79 (high motivation), 14
students (23.3%) who got the scores 80-100 (very high motivation), 10 students (16.7%)
who got the scores 60-69 (moderate motivation), 5 students (8.3 %) who got the scores
50-59 (low motivation), and 2 students (3.4%) who had 0-49 (very low motivation). The
mean of her research was 75.01 it means that the students’ motivation is high. The
students with intrinsic motivation are more ambitious because they wanted to achieve
their goal.
were 24 students. And the last, 2 students got low motivation (5.48%). The mean score of
the second year students at MTS Nurul Ulum Gadungan was 99.10. It means that their
motivation in learning English was average. In Fithra’s research, the intrinsic motivation
is more dominant than extrinsic motivation.
Based on the above explanation, motivation is the important factor in teaching
learning process. Therefore, the researcher wants to investigate about students’
motivation to face national examination at SMA 2 Batu.
1.2 Statements of the Problems
Based on the background above, the writer formulates problem by the following
questions:
1. How is the students’ motivation to prepare for national examination at SMA
Negeri 2 Batu?
2. What do the students do to motivate themselves in preparing for national
examination at SMA Negeri 2 Batu?
1.3 Purposes of the Study
The research will be done to achieve some purposes as follow:
1. To know the students’ motivation to prepare for national examination at SMA
Negeri 2 Batu.
2. To know what the students do to motivate themselves in preparing for national
1.4 Significance of the Study
The finding of this study is expected to give information about students’
motivation to prepare for UN. This contribution will be useful for school, especially in
achieving the success to prepare for UN.
The result of this study is also expected to provide a feedback to the teacher,
especially at SMA 2 Batu. The research will give the real description about students’
motivation. Therefore, the teacher will know about their students’ motivation. So, they
can use the effective teaching strategies.
1.5 Scope and Limitation
The scope of this research focuses on the students’ motivation. This research is
limited on the students at third grade of SMA 2 Batu.
1.6 Definition of key terms
1. Motivation is something that energizes, directs and sustains behavior; it gets
students moving, points them in a particular direction, and keeps them going.
We usually see it reflected in a certain amount of personal investment in
particular activities (Maehr and Meyer, 1997).
2. National examination is the result evaluation of study by government to
measure and to compare the students’ competency in national and to decide
