INCREASING STUDENT LEARNING ACTIVITIES AND ACHIEVEMENT THROUGH THE APPLICATION OF COOPERATIVE LEARNING TYPE STAD ON THE THERMODINAMIC SUBJECT

Abstract

Thermodinamics” is one of the ‘creative mastery subjects’ offered to the fourth semester students 2010/2011 academic year. There are sixty students joining the class. So far, the students’ grades in learning ‘ Thermodinamics’ have not been satisfactory. The problems to besolved through “lesson study program” is to increase students’ activities during the learning and it will automatically increase students’ achievements through the application of cooperative learning type STAD.Implementation of lesson study designed for four cycles with each cycle follows activity ‘plan’, ‘do’and ‘see’. The activity ‘plan’ is done before lecturing activity and the activity ‘see’ is done after the activity do at the same day. The data about students’ learning activities are collected through observation by four observers. The instrument used is observation sheet for students’ activities. The data of students’ learning activity achievement are collected through written test in the form of essay. The data dealing with students’ learning activity areanalyzed qualitatively, while the data about student achievement are got through the analysis of test. The results of data analysis show that thre is an incrasing in the students ‘activities at every meeting ang the students achievement also increase. Based on the data analysis, it can be concluded that the activity of “lesson study” can increase the quality of learning “Thermodinamics” in Physics Education PMIPA FKIP UR academic year of 2010/2011.