Implementating guided inquiry: The influence towards students' activities and communication skill

The aim of this research is to identify the effect of guided inquiry on students' activities and communication skill in chemistry. The population was all eleventh grade high school students in SMAN 2 Wates. The samples of this study were obtained by using random sampling technique. The samples consist 48 students, with 21 students in class XI MIPA 2 as an experimental group and. 27 students in class XI MIPA 4 as control group. While the students of experimental group were taught using guided inquiry and the students of control group were taught using expository learning. Data of this research were collected by using questionnaire and observation for students' activities and communication skill. The data were analyzed by using Multivariate Analysis of Variance (MANOVA) test whereas the significant level used was 0,05. The results show that there were significant differences between students who were taught using guided inquiry and students who were taught using expository. This study demonstrates that guided inquiry is significantly more effective to improving student's activity and communication skill than the expository learning which are usually applied by teachers in class.