The Influence of Thematic Learning Implementation on Student Motivation in Public Elementary School 002 Sungai Pinang Samarinda

Thematic learning is learning with a theme to combine several lessons so that it can provide a meaningful experience to students. This study aims to analyze the effect of the implementation of thematic learning on the learning motivation of grade V students at SDN 002 Sungai Pinang Dalam Samarinda in the 2019/2020 learning year. This type of research is ex post facto research, because there is no control over the independent variables. This study consists of two variables, namely the independent variable and one dependent variable. The independent variable is the implementation of thematic learning (X). The dependent variable is student learning motivation (Y). The population of this study were class V students of the 2019/2020 learning year at SDN 002 Sungai Pinang Dalam. The instrument used was a questionnaire. The data analysis techniques were data normality test, homogeneity test, data linearity test and simple linear regression test. Researchers also do not make arrangements or manipulate the independent variables. The results showed that there was a significant influence between the implementation of thematic learning on the learning motivation of grade V students at SDN 002 Sungai Pinang Dalam Samarinda for the 2019/2020 learning year with a moderate determination coefficient value of 0.50 or 50%. From the regression equation Y = 14.774 + 0.759X, it can be seen that the consistency value of the thematic learning implementation variable is 14.774 while the X regression coefficient is 0.759 which states that every 1% of thematic learning (X) implementation will increase student learning motivation by 0.759. The regression coefficient is positive, thus it can be said that the direction of the influence of the thematic learning implementation variable on student learning motivation is positive.

A Hybrid Approach for the Representation and Visualization of Composition in Recognized Design Patterns

Design patterns are standard design solutions that can be applied and composed in different applications where pattern related information is generally implicit in the UML diagrams of the applications. Applications of design patterns improve the quality and development productivity of software applications. Most software designs are based on different design patterns which are composed with each other. Therefore visualization of overlapping in recognized design patterns play an important role for the program comprehension. Different representations of design patterns have been proposed but each representation has its strengths and limitations. State of the art design pattern visualization approaches are unable to capture all the aspects of design patterns visualization which is important for the comprehension of any software application e.g. the role that a class, attribute and operation plays in a design pattern. Additionally, there exist multiple instances of a design pattern and different kinds of overlapping in design of different systems. Visualization of overlapping and composition in design patterns is undermining area. This research work is intended to analyze the characteristics, strengths and limitations of key design pattern representations used for visualization and based on the critical analysis of state of the art design pattern visualization approaches propose a hybrid approach which incorporates best features of existing approaches while suppressing their limitations. Our proposed hybrid notation is used to represent design pattern information related to class and to visualize different kinds of overlapping. Stereotypes, their associated tagged values, semantics and constraints are defined to represent the design pattern information related to attributes and/or operations of a class. We developed a prototyping tool named VisCDP to validate the concept of our approach.VisCDP is used to visualize design patterns information related to classes, operations and/or attributes in the composition of Recognized Design patterns. It provides static as well as on demand (dynamic) visualization in any UML class diagram. A real world case study is used to evaluate our approach and to compare the results with the other approaches.