The Effectiveness of The Digital Books’ Usage to Improve The XII IPS 3 Class Students’ Motivation at SMAN Pakusari Jember

Abstract

This research aims to determine the effectiveness of the digital books’ usage in increasing student motivation in XII IPS 3 class at SMAN Pakusari Jember. The method used in this research is descriptive qualitative. The use of digital books in learning is useful to make it easier for students to learn and it also can reduce the weaknesses in printed books. The students feel easy and confortable to use them in learning process, so it increases the students’ motivation at XII IPS 3 of SMAN Pakusari. The results showed that the use of digital books was very effective in increasing student motivation. The score of student learning motivation before using digital books is at a value of 3.4 which is included in the medium category. After using digital books in the learning process, the student's motivation score increased to 4.5 which is in the high category. For further research, it is hoped that researcher can use digital books with more complete features and materials than the digital books used in this study.