THE EFFECT OF INFOGRAPHIC MEDIA TO STUDENT’S COMPREHENSION IN SOCIAL STUDIES LEARNING (Quasi Experimental Research at Junior High School 3 Bandung)

Social Studies consist of structured facts, concepts, and generalizations. To be able to understand the concepts in social studies learning, a good comprehension is needed. Based on the observations, the results showed that students felt bored when studying social studies becaude there were a lot of material and the learning media used by the teacher was not interesting. This can be seen from the lack of student participation when learning. The way of communicate material from the teacher is unattractive, so makes it difficult for students to understand the subject matter. Infographic media is present as a new breakthrough in social studied learning media which aims to increase student’s comprehension of the data and information. The aim of this study is to analyze the effect infographic media on student’s comprehension in sosial studies learning. This study uses a quantitative method, namely quasi experimental. The research location is in Junior High School 3 Bandung. The research sample is class VIII-5 as the experimental class dan class VIII-4 as the control class. The experimental class uses infographic as a learning media, while the control class uses power point as a learning media. The reseacrh design used a non-equivalent control group design. Based on data processing and analysis, it was found that infographic media can be used as social studies learning media because infographic media can facilitate the process of understanding the material for students. The visual design of infographics can trigger students' interest in finding out more about the contents of the infographic. So, teachers can develop infographic media according to the needs of teaching materials so that students can easily understand the material.