IMPROVING STUDENTS’ SKILL IN WRITING DESCRIPTIVE TEXTS THROUGH PERSONAL PHOTOGRAPH MEDIA TO THE TWELFTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SMA SWASTA PELITA NUSANTARA LAWE SIGALA-GALAIN THE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2020/2021

This research was primarily conducted to prove that the application of Personal Photograph media could improve the writing skill of the twelfth grade students of SMA Swasta Pelita Nusantara Lawe Sigala-gala in the academic year of 2020/2021 and to describe their responses towards the application of Personal Photograph media in the processes of learning writing skill. Each cycle consisted of four meetings. The quantitative data analysis showed that the students mean score increased continually from 57,31 with 9% passing Minimum Mastery Criteria in pre-test, 71,81 with 36% Minimum Mastery Criteria in formative-test, 83,31 with 82% Minimum Mastery Criteriain post-test. The qualitative data analysis showed that the students’ responses after being taught through the application of Personal Photograph media are very good. The result is most of the students gave good responses to the Personal Photograph media which was used in learning teaching process. It is suggested that teachers use Personal Photograph media as an alternative in writing descriptive texts to the students in Senior High School in order to improve their students’ writing skill, particularly in writing descriptive texts.

Teams’ games tournaments with cognitive conflict instruction (CCI) model to unveil students’ misconceptions

The purpose of this research is to see what physics misconceptions students have regarding heat material. This study employs a three-tier diagnostic exam designed to identify students' physics misunderstandings. 150 grade VII students from five Lamongan district state junior high schools were included in the study. Creating a closed-ended the students' responses to the cognitive conflict instruction are used to create a three-tier instrument (CCI). The findings of the research revealed that the CCI is a viable and reliable tool for detecting misunderstandings. The findings of the detection of misconceptions in participants revealed that 45 % of pupils met the mastery criteria, 35 % met the misconception criteria, and 10% met the guessing requirement. Keywords: Misconception, heat material, three-tier test

Penerapan Problem Based Learning Berbantuan Media Diffa_SAC Untuk Meningkatkan Hasil Belajar Peserta Didik Kelas XI Pada Materi Aplikasi Turunan

This study aims to improve the learning outcomes of students in class XI MIPA 3 MAN 2 KUDUS in the even semester of the 2020/2021 academic year in Basic Competencies (KD) 3.9 and 4.9 on Derivative Applications. This type of research is Classroom Action Research with the research subjects of class XI MIPA 3 MAN 2 KUDUS students, totaling 30 students. This research took place in two cycles. The results showed that the application of PBL Assisted by the Diffa_ SAC Media could improve student learning outcomes marked by the acquisition of an average percentage of observation results reaching 80% and the acquisition of an average score for the end of learning learning outcomes test in cycle II was higher than the average. the average score of the final learning outcomes test in the first cycle. The acquisition of classical learning mastery in the first cycle was 77.42% and in the second cycle it reached 83.87% so that the classical learning mastery criteria of at least 80% in the second cycle was exceeded. There was an increase in student learning outcomes after the implementation of Diffa_ SAC Media Assisted PBL, marked by the average acquisition of student learning outcomes in the first cycle reaching 75.33 and in the second cycle the average acquisition of student learning outcomes reaching 91.13. Thus, there was a significant increase in the average student learning outcomes of 15.8 after the implementation of Diffa_ Media Assisted PBL in cycle II.Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk meningkatkan hasil belajar peserta didik kelas XI MIPA 3 MAN 2 KUDUS semester genap Tahun Pelajaran 2020/2021 pada Kompetensi Dasar (KD) 3.9 dan 4.9 tentang Aplikasi Turunan. Jenis penelitian ini adalah Penelitian Tindakan Kelas dengan subjek penelitian peserta didik kelas XI MIPA 3 MAN 2 KUDUS yang berjumlah 30 peserta didik. Penelitian ini berlangsung dalam dua siklus. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa Penerapan PBL Berbantuan Media Diffa_ SAC dapat meningkatkan hasil belajar peserta didik ditandai dengan perolehan persentase rata-rata hasil observasi mencapai dan perolehan rata-rata skor tes hasil belajar akhir pembelajaran pada siklus II lebih tinggi jika dibandingkan dengan rata-rata skor tes hasil belajarakhir pembelajaran pada siklus I. Perolehan ketuntasan belajar klasikal pada siklus I sebesar 77,42% dan pada siklus II mencapai 83,87% sehingga kriteria ketuntasan belajar klasikal minimal 80%pada siklus II terlampaui. Terjadi peningkatan hasil belajar peserta setelah dilaksanakannya PBL Berbantuan Media Diffa_ SAC ditandai dengan perolehan rata-rata hasil belajar peserta didik pada siklus I mencapai 75,33 dan pada siklus II perolehan rata-rata hasil belajar peserta didik mencapai 91,13. Dengan demikian, terjadi peningkatan rata-rata hasil belajar peserta didik secara signifikan sebesar 15,8 setelah penerapan PBL Berbantuan Media Diffa_ pada siklus II.

IMPROVING WRITING SKILL THROUGH THINK-PAIR-SHARE ON DESCRIPTIVE TEXT IN THE SECOND GRADERS OF MTs. NURUL ISLAM SLATRI , BREBES

Writing is assumed as the most difficult skill among other skills. Meanwhile, explaining all the materials until the end of the class is still used in the teaching process of descriptive text. This research is generally to answer whether or not think-pair-share can improve students’ writing skill on descriptive text and specifically to know: (1) the teacher’s activities, (2) the students’ activities, and (3) the students’ responses during the implementation of think-pair-share on writing class of descriptive text. The subjects are 16 students of the second graders of MTs Nurul Islam Slatri in the academic year of 2013/2014. The data were obtained from the observations and writing test. The students’ writing skill improved after the implementation of Think-Pair-Share that could be seen in the improvement of mean score, from 68.4 and 72.5 in cycle one to 73.4 and 77.2 in cycle two. The percentage of students who passed the minimum mastery criteria also improved, from 62.5 % and 69 % in cycle one to 75 % and 100 % in cycle two. In conclusion, think-pair-share can improve students’ writing skill on descriptive text.

Directed Reading Thinking Activity (DRTA) to Improve Reading Comprehension for 7th Grade Students at SMP Negeri 1 Surabaya

The purpose of this research was to increase students' achievement in reading comprehension by implementing the Directed Reading Thinking Activity (DRTA) strategy to the 7th grade students at SMP Negeri 1 Surabaya in the academic year 2020/2021. Each cycle of classroom action research consisted of three meetings and included four steps: planning, action, observation, and reflection. The data were gathered through the use of two instruments: observation and test. The results indicated that students made great progress in their ability regarding to the reading comprehension. Pre-test mean score was only 67.28, but improved to 72.42 in cycle I and 81.22 in cycle II. The pre-test of the highest score was only 78 and improved to 82 to 90 in subsequent cycles. Meanwhile, the lowest pre-test score was 60, and the lowest post-test score ranged from 62 to 68. In case of the students who passed the tests, while only 6 students (16.67%) passed the pre-test, there were significant improvements in post-tests, with 12 students (33.33%) passing in post-test cycle I and 29 students (80.56%) passing in post-test cycle II. This research was stopped in cycle II due to the fact that the criteria for success were met in a percentage of 80.56%, with 29 students passing the post-test in cycle II, based on the Minimum Mastery Criteria (KKM) standard of > 76.

TEACHING SPEAKING SKILL BY USING BAMBOO DANCING METHOD TO THE EIGHTH GRADE STUDENTS AT SMP NEGERI 1 LUBUKLINGGAU

The problem of this study was “Is it significantly effective to use Bamboo Dancing Method to the Eighth Grade Students of SMP Negeri 1 Lubuklinggau in academic year of 2019/2010?” Therefore, the objective of this study was to find out whether or not it is significantly effective to use Bamboo Dancing Method to the Eighth Grade Students of SMP Negeri 1 Lubuklinggau in academic year of 2019/2020 which was divided in to ten classes and the total number was 335 students. The applied method was Pre-experimental method with one group pre-test and post-test design. The writer used cluster random sampling to get the sample. The result was VIII.2 as sample group which consist of 34 students. The instrument of collecting the data was speaking test. The writer applied four techniques in analyzing the data. They were: 1) Individual Score, 2) Minimum Mastery Criteria, 3) Normality test, 4) the Paired t-test. The result of this study: (1) The mean of students’ score in the Pre-test was 29.59, (2)The mean of students score in the Post-test was 78.41, and (3) The result of Paired t-test was 5.69, at one tailed the degree of freedom (df) will be 33 (34-1) with 5% (0.05) significance level, t-table value is 1.692. Therefore, the null hypothesis (Ho) was rejected and the alternative hypothesis (Ha) is accepted. It means that it was significantly effective to use Bamboo Dancing Method to the Eighth Grade Students at SMP Negeri 1 Lubuklinggau in academic year of 2019/2020.

PENULISAN KARANGAN NARASI BERDASARKAN PENGALAMAN PRIBADI SISWA

This study aims to describe the ability of class X MA Uswatun Hasanah Lala students in writing narrativeessays based on personal experience. This research was designed using quantitative description methods. The variable observed in this study was the ability of students to write narrative essays based on personal experience in class X students of Uswatun Hasanah. Thus, the type of variable is a single variable. Data collection techniques in this study in the form of tests and observations. Furthermore, the data analysis technique in this study uses statistical techniques. The results showed that of the 29 research subjects who scored 66 or above as many as 12 students or 41.31% and research subjects who scored less than 66 were 17 students or 58.62%. Based on the mastery criteria that the research subject was declared successful if 85% of students had a value of66 and above, it can be concluded that the class X MA Uswatun Hasanah Lala was able to write narrative essays based on personal experience.

PENGGUNAAN MEDIA PREZI DAN KAHOOT SERTA PEMBERIAN REWARD SEBAGAI UPAYA MENINGKATKAN HASIL BELAJAR AKUNTANSI

Learning by implementing the conventional methods in which the teachers are considered as the learning central attention (teacher-centered learning) and books as the main learning sources is no longer relevant. Since the most students now become more familiar with the development of technology, the teachers are also required to adapt with the technology-based learning. This classroom action research (CAR) was conducted in three cycles (pre-cycle, cycle-1, and cycle-2). The stages and activities made in cycle-1 were similar with those made in cycle-2. The different was only related to development and completion made in cycle-2 due to the weaknesses found in cycle-1. This research aims at revealing the impact of Prezi & Kahoot media and reward’s giving utilized as the learning strategies on the improvement of learning achievements made by the XI Ak 3 students of SMKN-2 Madiun in the academic year of 2018/2019. It is concluded that the utilization of Prezi & Kahoot media and reward’s giving can improve the student’ cognitive learning achievements up to 84%. It means that these learning achievements are already above the Minimum Mastery Criteria (75%) set by the school. ABSTRAK: Pembelajaran menerapkan metode konvensional, guru sebagai pusat pembelajaran (teacher-centered learning), dengan menggunakan buku sebagai sumber belajar dinilai sudah kurang relevan sekarang ini. Hal ini dikarenakan siswa sudah semakin akrab dengan perkembangan teknologi yang ada sehingga guru juga dituntut untuk dapat beradaptasi dan mengadopsi pembelajaran berbasis teknologi. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian tindakan kelas (PTK) yang berlangsung 3 siklus (pra siklus, siklus-1, dan siklus-2). Tahapan dan kegiatan yang dilakukan pada siklus-1 adalah sama dengan yang dilakukan pada siklus-2. Perbedaannya terletak pada perbaikan dan penyempurnaan pada siklus-2 yang didasarkan atas kekurangan/kelemahan pada siklus-1. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui dampak penggunaan media Prezi dan Kahoot serta pemberian reward sebagai sarana pembelajaran terhadap peningkatan hasil belajar siswa kelas XI Ak 3 SMKN-2 Madiun Tahun Pelajaran 2018/2019. Simpulan penelitian adalah bahwa penggunaan media Prezi dan Kahoot serta pemberian reward dapat meningkatkan hasil belajar kognitif siswa sampai 84%. Capaian ini berarti berada di atas Kriteria Ketuntasan Minimal (KKM) yang ditetapkan sekolah sebesar 75%.