Penerapan Problem Based Learning untuk Mengoptimalkan Keterampilan Pemecahan Masalah pada Pelajaran Ekonomi di SMA

摘要

The purpose of this research is to know how the problem based learning method in optimizing the problem solves ability in Economic subject for social ten grade students at SMA Negeri 4 Pontianak. The method used is experiment method which is pretending experiment (Quasy Experiment). X IPS 1 and X IPS 2 students are the resources of this research that is consist of 77 students in academic year 2015/2016. From the data analysis shows the average of post-test scores in experiment class is 79,56 and the average post-test scores in controlling class is 74,94. There is a positive differences and significance between the result of economic learning with problem based learning method and conventional method which is the scores of experiment class are better than the scores in controlling class for X grade students at SMA Negeri 4 Pontianak. Meanwhile the effect size is in medium level, 0,64.