22 c Believing that success and achievement are influenced by
external factors fate, luck, the environment.
3. Student Perceptions of Teacher Teaching Methods
a. Definition Student Perceptions of Teacher Teaching
Methods
Perception is a process which is preceded by the sensing process, receipted of stimuli by the individual through the
sensory organs is also called sensory. This process is continued
by stimulus and proceeds with the process of perception Bimo Walgito, 2010: 97.
Sensing or sensation is the entry into the human sensory organs
.
After the stimulus goes into human sensory organs, so the brain will translate the stimulus. The brains ability to
translate the stimulus is called the perception. Perception is the process of translating or interpreting stimulus in the sensory
organs Sugihartono, 2012: 7-8. Sugihartono 2012: 81 said that learning method is the way
of learning process to obtain optimal results. There are many different kinds of learning methods. Each method has strengths
and weaknesses. Teachers can choose the method that is appropriate in learning activities.
Abuddin 2009: 176 said that learning method is a method which associated with delivering theories, concepts, and insights
23 contained in the various fields of science. And then, Jamil
2014: 281 said that learning method is a means used by teachers to implement learning activities.
Based on the theories of student perceptions of teacher teaching methods in which is the student’s brains ability to
translate and interpret the stimulus in sensory organs to the teacher’s teaching methods are used during the learning process.
b. Affecting Factors of Student Perceptions to Teacher
Teaching Methods
According to Miftah Toha 2011: 149, there are factors that influence the perception is different to each other :
1 Internal factors:
feelings, attitudes
and individual
personality, prejudice, desire or expectation, attention, learning, physical, psychiatric disorders, values and needs
are also individual self-interest and motivation.
2 External factors: family background, information obtained
knowledge and culture, intensity, size, presence, repeated movement of things - new and familiar.
According to Bimo Walgito 2010: 101, factors that affecting the perception as follow:
1 The object is perceived Objects raise the stimulus which recognizes sensory organs
or receptors. The Stimulus could come from outside the individual who perceives it. In addition, it can also come
from within the individual where the question is directly on the nerve receptors that work
as a receiver. But most of the stimulus is coming from the outside of individual.
2 Sense organ, nerves and the central nervous system. Sense organ or receptor is a tool for receiving stimulus. In
addition, there should be a sensory nerve as a tool to forward the received stimulus receptor to the central nervous system,
24 the brain as the center of consciousness. It means to conduct
a necessary response to motor nerve. 3 Interest
To realize the tools to conduct perception is also their concern that is the first step as a preparation in the
perceptual. Attention is concentration of all individual activities directed at something or set of objects.
Based on the theories, the factors affecting the Student Perceptions of Teachers Teaching Methods as
follows, the internal and external factors of students, the object perceived, sense organ, nerves and the central nervous
system.
c. Type of Teaching Methods