The Implementation of Constructivism Approach for Physics Learning in Vocational High School

The nowadays Physics learning at vocational high school is still focusing on teacher-centered. Therefore, the learners' activities are only listening to a lecture from the teacher and take notes. The learning process is supposed to be students-centered, the teacher acts as a facilitator and mediator. The learning process should provide an opportunity for learners to acquire knowledge itself in accordance with the prior knowledge they already had, which is the result of interaction with the environment. Such learning process is in accordance with the constructivist view. The method in this research is quantitative research, the research design pretest-posttest control group design. The research subjects are 30 students for the experimental group and 30 students in the control group. The experimental group in this research is the group that is taught by the constructivist approach (student-centered), while the control group is taught by the teacher centered approach. The obtained findings have significant differences in post test results of students who are treated as experimental groups and with the control group (p <0.05). The conclusion of this research is the implementation of Physics in vocational learning with constructivist approach proved to be effective and influence the improvement of learning outcome of students in the first semester for the tenth grade students of vocational high school.