Differentiated Learning Strategy toward Students’ Motivation and Cognitive Outcome on Descriptive Text

Abstract

This research is aimed to find out the effectiveness of differentiated learning strategy to the students in learning descriptive text. The method of this study uses quantitative approach with the statistical data. The population of this research comprised of 36 students with the treatment of differentiated lerning strategy The data collection techniques used are written test and questionnaire. The data gathered was then analyzed and tested by using Paired Sample T Test. The results are as follows. 1) There is no difference in motivation of the students before and after using differentiated learning strategy with the sig. 0.517 and the average 56,72 before using differentiated learning strategy and 57,44 after using differentiated learning strategy. 2) There is a difference in cognitive outcomes of the students with the sig 0.000 with the average 58,47 before using differentiated learning strategy and 70,138 after using differentiated learning strategy.