Abstract: The confidence of students in learning can be seen from the students 'daily learning activities, namely fear for suggested, ignore his social life, often looked glum in learning, afraid to form your own opinion, and many students are not responsible for the given task master, so many students who cheated. One of the efforts made to improve the confidence of students in learning is by information services. This research aims to test the effectiveness of information services by using

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... textual teaching and learning approaches to increase the confidence of students in learning. This research using quantitative methods. This type of research is Quasi Experiment with Pretest-Posttest design Control Group Design. The population of this research was the students at SMP Pembangunan Laboratorium UNP Padang and The sample was chosen by using Purposive Sampling Technique. Research instrument used with Likert scale model, then analyzed using the Wilcoxon Signed Ranks Test and Kolmogorov-Smirnov Two Sample Independent with the help of SPSS version 17.00. In general the findings of this research it can be concluded that the information services with the contextual approach to teaching and learning can improve the confidence of students in learning.