Criteria of Research Success

B. Description of Research Data

1. Pre-Research Before conducting the research, researcher conducted interview and observation inside the class. From the interview and observation, there were some problems related to Accounting learning process in grade X Ak 2, such as a. Students 1 Students’ learning motivation was low Students’ learning motivation was still low indicated from an observation in the classroom, and questionnaire that was distributed to students. Observation done by researcher on Wednesday 25th November 2015, showed that students ’ learning motivation was still low in participating the Accounting subject. This demonstrated by the presence of four students who arrived late to join the learning process, students did not pay attention while the teacher had started the lesson, some students played the mobile phone during the learning process, and many students who had not pulled out their book to follow the learning process. Another observation showed that most of students rarely expressed their opinions or asked the teacher, when they did not understand about the materials. There were only 12 students who actively asked the teacher or friends when they found difficulties in doing excercises provided by the teacher. In addition to the observations done in the classroom, researcher also distributed questionnaire to students. From data of questionnaire, it can be concluded that the Accounting subject’s learning motivation of grade X Ak 2 was still low, because from eight indicators, they did not meet the minimum criteria 75. The average score of Accounting learning motivation of grade X Ak 2 in pre cycle is 69,42. The result of the questionnaire of Accounting learning motivation at pre cycle was in the following table: Table 6. Scores Learning Motivation Pre Cycle No Indicator Scores Pre Cycle 1 Diligence in doing the tasks 66,15 2 Always being encouraged 69,14 3 Showing interest in all kinds of problems 67,97 4 Usually working independently 69,79 5 Quickly being bored with routine tasks 71,35 6 Being able to defend his opinion 70,31 7 Not easy to let go of these beliefs 72,66 8 Diligence to locate and troubleshoot problems 67,97 Average Score 69,42 From the average score, it could be inferred that the students’ learning motivation of grade X Ak 2 were still low and supplementary actions needs to be given to enhance the students’ Accounting learning motivation. Source: Processed Primary data 2 Accounting Learning Achievements was low The low level of Accounting learning achievement in grade X Ak 2 can be seen from the results of final test that 40,63 students did not meet the requirements set by school regulation, i.e. 13 students from 32 students. This showed that Accounting teaching learning process in the classroom was not good. b. Teacher The problems must not be only seen from students’ side but from teacher’s side as well. The problems faced by teacher in the learning process of Accounting in the classroom are teaching techniques being used and conventionally-used learning model i.e., lecture and doing exercises. Students were not actively involved in the learning process, so teacher dominated the teaching learning process in the classroom. From some existed problems, it can be inferred that the learning process in Accounting of grade X Ak 2 SMK N 7 Yogyakarta required actions to improve the learning achievements of students. In this case, the researcher applied Blended learning Model based on Social Media Edmodo to increase Accounting learning motivation and learning achievements.