THE ACHIEVEMENT OF MATHEMATICAL CONNECTION SKILLS BASED ON COGNITIVE LEVEL THROUGH MEANS ENDS ANALYSIS (MEA) STRATEGY OF LEARNING

This research aims to analyze the effect of learning strategies (MEA and Conventional), cognitive levels (low, middle, and high), and interaction of learning strategies and cognitive levels to the achievement of mathematical connection skills. The quasi experiment design with Randomized Subjects Post-test Only Control Group Design of the research was conducted at one of junior high school in South Tangerang. The results of the research revealed that,first; there is significant effect from learning strategies to the student’ s achievement of mathematical connection skills. The difference learning strategy affects the student’ s mathematical connection skills. MEA strategy gives mathematical connection skills better than conventional strategy . Second, there is significant effect from cognitive level to the student’ s mathematical connection skills. Higher Cognitive levels are providing mathematical connection skill better. Third, there is no interaction effect of learning methods with the level of cognitive to student’ s mathematical connection skills. The differences of learning strategies and cognitive levels combination are not influence to the student’ s mathematical connection skills.