The Influence of Value Clarification Technique (VCT) Approach Assisted by Moral Dilemmas Discussion in Learning Pancasila Democracy on Conceptual Understanding and Student’ Moral Attitudes Learning Outcome

Abstract

Research "The Influence of Value Clarification Technique (VCT) Approach Assisted by Moral Dilemmas Discussion in Learning Pancasila Democracy on Conceptual Understanding and Students' Moral Attitudes Learning outcome”. Research problem; (1) Is there a positive effect of VCT applied with moral dilemma discussion method on Pancasila democracy material on students’ learning outcome of conceptual understanding (cognitive domain)? (2) Is there a positive effect of VCT applied with moral dilemma discussion method on Pancasila democracy material on students' moral behavior learning outcome? The research context was class XI IPA.3 students as experimental class and the control class was XI IPA.1 students of SMAN 4 Kupang. The descriptive-quantitative method was used assisted by t-test analysis technique. Pretest results showed no significant difference among students' ability to understand moral concepts in democracy material between experimental class and control class. The average score of experimental class was 66.90 meanwhile control class was 65.54. The average of pre-test results concerning students’ moral attitudes in experimental class was 71.21 and control class was 72. 86. Post-test results of conceptual understanding as cognitive learning outcome in experimental class was 87.76, higher than the average control class score of 74.82. This proved that the use of VCT approach with the moral dilemma discussion method positively improves students’ understanding of moral concepts and their attitude and moral behavior. The independent sample t test result indicated a significant difference between control and experimental classes. This was indicated by a 2-way (t-tailed) significance value of 0.000 <0.05. Group homogeneity test result based on Lavene's test for variances equality obtained a value of 0.264 > 0.05 therefore data between control and experimental class were homogeneous. Likewise, the two-way significance test (t-tailed) result on equal variances assumed section obtained the sig value. 000 < 0.05. Relying on t test result it could be concluded that H0rejected and Ha accepted. Thus, understanding moral concepts and attitudes learning outcome using VCT Strategy with moral dilemma discussion method achieved higher result than using VCT Strategy with conventional lecture method.