PENINGKATAN HASIL BELAJAR DENGAN PENDEKATAN KOOPERATIF PADA MATERI PEMISAHAAN CAMPURAN SISWA KELAS VII D SMP NEGERI 1 KALISAT

Abstract

Abstract. At learning process, the students cannot improve their creativities and their abilities to think critical. They are the object of learning process. Based on the writer’s experience and observation, this condition also happens at SMP 1 Kalisat, so the student’s achievement and the motivation is low. Cooperative learning is an approach to organize classroom activities into academic and social learning experiences. It differs from group work, and it has been described as "structuring positive interdependence."Students must work in groups to complete tasks collectively toward academic goals. Unlike individual learning, which can be competitive in nature, students learning cooperatively capitalize on one another’s resources and skills (asking one another for information, evaluating one another’s ideas, monitoring one another’s work, etc.).Furthermore, the teacher's role changes from giving information to facilitating students' learning. Everyone succeeds when the group succeeds. Ross and Smyth (1995) describe successful cooperative learning tasks as intellectually demanding, creative, open-ended, and involve higher order thinking tasks.Five essential elements are identified for the successful incorporation of cooperative learning in the classroom. The writer makes a research by using cooperative learning on material separation mixture at VII/D. Based on the data analysis,  the rate of the students’ achievement is 68.29 at the first cycle  . The criterion throughness minimal is 75 at SMP 1 Kalisat, so the students’ achievement are not complete.The colaboration among groups is 81,66. This need second cycle. At the second cycle the rate of students’ achievement is 87.5, the colaboration among  groups is 86.94. Based on the data, there is an improvement of  students’ achievement. The category is good so it can be concluded that by cooperative learning, there is an improvement of students’ achievement at VII/D SMP 1 Kalisat on the  semester I 2013/2014

Keywords : The improvement of students’ achievemnent by cooperative learning.