The Use of Multimedia Learning to Improve Motivation of the Students at Primary School Teacher Education Study Program in Learning Social Science

This study aimed at using multimedia learning to improve motivation of the students of primary teacher education study program (PGSD) in learning social science for a primary school course. The subject of this study is 39 students of primary school teacher education study program (PGSD), class A of the fourth semester in academic year 2015/2016 of Teacher Training and Education Faculty, Tadulako University. This is a Classroom Action Research which consisted of two cycles. Data of observation result on students learning motivation indicated that the highest score was 78 or 45.88% in the category of FAIR, and the lowest score was 48 or 28.24% in the category POOR. Percentage of the students' absorptive capacity is 35.79%. In the cycle I, the highest score of students was 136 (80%) in the category HIGH that increased into 166 (97.65%) in the category VERY GOOD at the cycle II, and the lowest score was 85 (50%) in the category POOR that increased into 130 (76.4%) in the category POOR at the cycle II. The percentage of students' absorptive capacity was 61.5% in cycle I and increased into 87.18% at the cycle II. It can be concluded that the use of multimedia learning improved the students' motivation in learning social science for primary school course.