Improving Communication Ability And Mathematical Self Efficacy Of Elementary School Students Through The Realistic Mathematics Learning Approach

Abstract

The research activity was focused on improving communication skills and mathematical self-efficacy of students who obtained realisticmathematics learning approaches in elementary schools. The purpose of the study was to determine the improvement of communication skills andmathematical self efficacy of students who obtained realistic mathematics learning approaches better than students' mathematical communication skillswho obtained a conventional approach. Improvement of communication skills and mathematical self efficacy of students who get a realistic mathematicslearning approach will be conducted through a study of action studies on the subject of research namely elementary students in several schools aroundRantauprapat City. Therefore the research that would be used was following a series of quasi-experimental studies. The results of the calculation of thetwo-way ANOVA calculation of the post-test minimum self-efficacy scores of students in the class given a realistic approach were 58.0 better thanstudents in the class given conventional learning 43.0, as well as the maximum self-efficacy scores of students in the class given a realistic approach 69,0 is better than students who were given conventional learning 58.0, thus with a posttest self-efficacy score for the class given a realistic approach62.633 higher than the posttest average of students for the class given conventional learning 49.667 and a significant level of 0.000. In order thatsignificant 0,000 <0,05 means H0 is rejected so it could be concluded that the increase in mathematical communication skills of students with realisticapproaches is higher than students given conventional learning