Middle School Students’ Interest in Learning Sprinting Online Running During New Normal

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the school learning system, which was initially done offline; now, it is done online. However, several problems arise related to the learning process carried out. This study wanted to find out about students' interest in online learning. This study aimed to determine how much middle school students are interested in learning sprinting online during the new normal. The study is quantitative descriptive research, and the method used in this study was a survey with a questionnaire data collection technique in the form of a questionnaire. The population in this study were students of middle schools Informatika Bina Generasi Ciomas Bogor in class VIII, totaling five classes of 150 people. The sample in this study was class VIII-B, with 30 students. The data analysis technique used quantitative descriptive analysis as outlined in the form of a percentage. This study's results indicate that the study's results suggest that the interest of middle school students in online-based sprinting learning during the Covid-19 New Normal period is included in the high category. Where out of 30 respondents, in the very high category were five students (17%); in the high category were 17 students (56%); in the medium category were three students (10%); the low category were three students (10%), and the very low category were two students (7%). This study concludes that middle school students' interest in online-based sprinting learning during the COVID-19 New Normal period is more dominant on intrinsic factors.