Improving the Students’ Activity and Learning Outcomes on Social Sciences Subject Using Round Table and Rally Coach of Cooperative Learning Model

Abstract

The purpose of this study to (1) analyze the increasing students’learning activity and learning outcomes. Student activities which were observed include the visual, verbal, listening, writing and mental visual activity , (2) to analyze the improvement of student learning outcomes using Round Table and Rally Coach model of Cooperative learning, a test was conducted at the end of each learning cycle. The research method employed is Classroom Action Research (CAR) involving 2 cycles. . The implemented learning model is Round Table and Rally Coach model of cooperative learning on the eighth-grade students of C Class of SMP Negeri 2 Sungai Raya Bengkayang West Kalimantan. The data used were obtained from observation, test result, interview, questionnaire, and documentation. The result of the analysis shows that the implementation of Round Table and Rally Coach model of Cooperative learning can improve students’ activity and learning outcomes and it has good criteria in the first cycle and very good in the second cycle. Besides, it was found out that students show good responses of learning using Round Table and Rally Coach model of Cooperative learning.

Keywords: Activity , Learning Outcomes, Round Table and Rally Coach of Cooperative learning