Procedure of the Study

Khalifatulloh Fielardh, 2013 Dynamics Of Students Self Regulated Learning Within Encological Multi User Virtual Environment Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia | repository.upi.edu tests were conducted which include: linearity, autocorrelation and hetero- scedasticity. After the assumption tests, researcher used inferential statistic test to examine the proposed hypothesis as featured in Table 3.4. Detailed results of each test were included in the Appendix C. Paired sample test instead of one sample t-test was incorporated in this study as there were no standard to be compared against the acquired data. For this instance there were no standard of self-regulated learning ability, self-regulated learning behavior and understanding of the causal pattern in ecosystem Colardaci et al., 2011:301-313 Table 3.4 Statistical Tests to Examine Hypothesis. Hypotheses Statistical Tests H 1-1 There is a significant differenc e of students’ self-regulated learning before and after the intervention. paired sample z-test or Wilcoxon test H 1-2 There is a significant difference of students’ understanding of causal patterns before and after the intervention. paired sample t-test or Wilcoxon test H 1-3 There is a significant correlation between self- regulated learning component and students’ understanding of causal patterns Pearson Product moment or Spearman Correlation H 1-4 There is a significant effect of self-regulated learning ’s component to students’ understanding of causal patterns. Pathway Analysis To specifically address the first and second research question, normalized gain between pretest and posttest of both MSLQ-B and SCCP-E were also calculated See Appendix D for the detailed result. The acquired scores of the gain could then be used to show the effectiveness of the given intervention. For this instance the amount of gain expand the result acquired from the difference tests. The normalized-gain was then categorized based on standards appointed by Hake 1999:1. After completing the quantitative data analysis, the result of qualitative data analysis were infused to enrich the acquired data. Crosscheck to the literature review was also conducted to explain important findings.

C. Procedure of the Study

Khalifatulloh Fielardh, 2013 Dynamics Of Students Self Regulated Learning Within Encological Multi User Virtual Environment Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia | repository.upi.edu The summary of overall procedure in this study is presented in Figure 3.2 in the following page. Figure 3.2 Overall Research Procedures PROBLEM IDENTIFICATION PROBLEM IDENTIFICATION SCIENCE LEARNING SCIENCE LEARNING LITERATURE REVIEW LITERATURE REVIEW CAUSALITY NATURE Grotzer, 2009 CAUSALITY NATURE Grotzer, 2009 PROBLEM FORMULATION PROBLEM FORMULATION EDUCATIONAL MUVE Metcalf, 2011 EDUCATIONAL MUVE Metcalf, 2011 COULD BE TAUGHT VIA SELF-REGULATED LEARNING Pintrich,1991;Zimmerman, 2008 SELF-REGULATED LEARNING Pintrich,1991;Zimmerman, 2008 REQUIRE JUDGMENT JUDGMENT INSTRUMENTATION INSTRUMENTATION TRYOUT TRYOUT REVISION REVISION RESEARCH INSTRUMENTS RESEARCH INSTRUMENTS QUANTITATIVE pre and post QUANTITATIVE pre and post QUALITATIVE QUALITATIVE MSLQ-B Liu et al., 2010 MSLQ-B Liu et al., 2010 SCCP-E Grotzer, 2009 SCCP-E Grotzer, 2009 INTERVIEW SCHEDULE INTERVIEW SCHEDULE REFLECTIVE JOURNAL REFLECTIVE JOURNAL ANECDOTAL NOTE ANECDOTAL NOTE WAS ADMINISTERED IN WORKSHEET Metcalf, 2011 WORKSHEET Metcalf, 2011 DATA COLLECTION Embedded Experimental Research Design, Creswell Clark, 2007:68 DATA COLLECTION Embedded Experimental Research Design, Creswell Clark, 2007:68 INTERVENTION INTERVENTION QUANTITATIVE PREMEASURE QUANTITATIVE PREMEASURE QUANTITATIVE POSTMEASURE QUANTITATIVE POSTMEASURE POST-QUALITATIVE POST-QUALITATIVE PRE-QUALITATIVE PRE-QUALITATIVE PERI-QUALITATIVE PERI-QUALITATIVE ONE-GROUP PRETEST-POSTTEST ONE-GROUP PRETEST-POSTTEST DATA TRANSFORMATION DATA TRANSFORMATION QUALITATIVE QUALITATIVE QUANTITATIVE QUANTITATIVE ORDINAL SCALE ORDINAL SCALE INTERVAL SCALE INTERVAL SCALE CATEGORIZATION CATEGORIZATION DATA ANALYSIS DATA ANALYSIS DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS MEAN MEAN PERCENTAGE PERCENTAGE QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS CODING CODING THEME GENERATING THEME GENERATING INFERENTIAL STATISTICS INFERENTIAL STATISTICS ASSUMPTION TESTS ASSUMPTION TESTS HYPOTHESIS TEST HYPOTHESIS TEST DIFFERENCE TEST DIFFERENCE TEST CORRELATION ANALYSIS CORRELATION ANALYSIS PATHWAY ANALYSIS PATHWAY ANALYSIS DISCUSSION DISCUSSION QUANTITATIVE FINDINGS QUANTITATIVE FINDINGS qualitative findings qualitative findings CONCLUSION CONCLUSION RECOMMENDATION RECOMMENDATION FACTOR ANALYSIS FACTOR ANALYSIS 105 Khalifatulloh Fielardh, 2013 Dynamics Of Students Self Regulated Learning Within Encological Multi User Virtual Environment Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia | repository.upi.edu

CHAPTER 5 CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION

A. Conclusion

Referring to the main objective of this learning which is to examine the dynamics of students’ self-regulated learning on understanding causal pattern in ecosystem via multi-user virtual environment, based on research finding, analysis and discussion several conclusions could be made as follow. Experimental quantitative outcomes revealed that students were more engaged in an individual learning activity rather than a group learning activity within the Multi User Virtual Environment. Qualitative findings expand that outcome by pointing out that this condition might be attributed to some problem: incompetent group leader, reliance on face-to-face discussion rather than using online platform and poor time management. Experimental quantitative outcomes revealed that there was a significant difference of students’ self-regulated learning after learning via the Multi User virtual environment; although a low gain was reported for both motivational and learning strategy scale. Qualitative findings expand that outcome by providing evidence that students need more prompt from teacher to be able to increase their self-regulated learning skill. Experimental quantitative outcomes revealed that there was a significant di fference of students’ understanding of causal pattern in ecosystem after learning via Multi-User Virtual Environment, with a medium gain reported. Correlational analysis showed that among the self-regulated learning components only: individual engagement, internal goal orientation, critical thinking and self-efficacy that significantly correlated with academic achievement, which in this study refers to students’ understanding of causality patterns. Highest correlation that could be recorded in this study was shown by the individual engagement. Pathway analysis showed that only internal goal orientation and individual engagement components of self-regulated learning that