Analysis of Students Science Learning Interest in Science Subject Class VIII UPT SPF SMPN 54 Makassar

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to identify students' learning interest in science subjects at UPT SPF SMPN 54 Makassar. The type of research used in this research is descriptive research with a quantitative approach. The population of this research is class VIII students at SMPN 54 Makassar. The research instrument used was a questionnaire of students' learning interest in science subjects. The sampling technique in this study was purposive sampling where the data processed was quantitative data. Furthermore, the data were analyzed using quantitative analysis techniques using descriptive statistics. The results of this study indicate that students' learning interest in science subjects’ class VIII at SMPN 54 Makassar is in the good category (60%), very good category (35%), and not good category (5%). Students' interest in learning for each indicator is 82.75%, for the happy feeling indicator, the student interest indicator is 75.5%, the student attention indicator is 72.9% and the student involvement indicator is 81.56%.