The Social Attitude Empowerment of Biology Students: Implementation JiRQA Learning Strategy in Different Ethnics

The empowerment of social attitudes in higher education is indispensable. The aim
of this research was to uncover the effect of the empowerment efforts on the social
attitudes of multiethnic biology students through the implementation of JiRQA
learning strategy. This research was a quasi experimental of 2 x 3 factorial design
implemented on the multiethnic biology students of STKIP Persada Khatulistiwa
Sintang. The total sample was 125 students consisting of ethnics of Dayak, Malay
and Javanese. The samples were taken by using simple random sampling
technique. The data of social attitudes were obtained from SSAQ. The data were
analyzed by using analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) at the 5% significance level
(p <0.05). The results of the analysis showed that the JiRQA learning strategy was
more potential in empowering social attitudes of biology students. All the three
ethnic groups did not have different social attitudes on each learning strategies due
to the acculturation and assimilation.

Keywords: biology students, ethnics, JiRQA strategy, learning strategy, social attitudes