IMPROVING THE STUDENTS LEARNING ACHIEVEMENT ON FLUID MECHANICS COURSE THROUGH THE USE OF INTERACTIVE MEDIA By Didik Purwantoro,

M.T ABSTRACT This research aims at improving the quality of teaching and learning process in Fluid Mechanics course through the use of teaching media. The teaching of Fluid Mechanics needs communicative and authentic media. Interactive media which is made by using software is one of media that give chance to the students to learn, practice, and analyze the materials of mechanic and fluid dynamic outside the class independently and interactively. This study is categorized as an Action Research. The participants of this study were the semester three students of Diploma III of Civil Engineering Study Program of Yogyakarta State University who join Fluid Mechanics class. This research was conducted in 4 months. There were 2 cycles in this study. Each cycle consisted of planning, conducting, and controlling then the final stage was reflection. Data were analyzed using quantitative method and simple descriptive qualitative. The result of research shows that the implementation of interactive media can improve the quality of teaching and learning process on Fluid Mechanics course. The scores of the students had increased from the mean score of 68.41 on the first cycle into 75.37 on the second cycle. Moreover, 94.85% of the students responded well to the use of interactive teaching media as a medium of learning. Keywords: Fluid mechanics, learning media, action research