Article RETRACTED due to manipulation by the authors Improving students’ learning motivation through differentiate learning in sports education subject

The background of this research is to address students' motivation in sports learning which is still low. Based on the results of interviews with the teacher at SMP Negeri 2 Sleman, an average score of 69.33 was obtained as the low category. This condition should be suspected as the cause of the low achievement of student learning outcomes. The aim of the research is to improve students' learning motivation through the implementation of differentiating learning strategies in sports subject. This study also wants to know the impact of improving motivation on increasing students’ achievement. This study uses an experimental method, namely quasi-experimental research design by applying differentiation learning strategies to increase student motivation in sports subjects. The results of this study showed that the application of differentiation learning strategies succeeded in increasing student learning motivation in sports subjects, with an intrinsic motivation (IM) value of 84.53 and extrinsic motivation of 77.67 in the very good category, and there was an increase in the average achievement score from 72.02 to 76.39 in the end-of-semester assessment. Based on these results it can be concluded that the differentiated learning model is proven to be able to increase student motivation in learning sports. Keywords: Differentiated learning, learning motivation, sports achievement