The Effectiveness of Cooperative Learning Methods: A case study of writing learning at Junior High School

Abstract

Learning methods have an important role in the learning process of teaching. But there are still teachers who do not optimize the use of learning methods, so the classroom atmosphere is monotonous and boring, and learning to write procedure texts is still considered difficult by students. The purpose of this study is to compare the effectiveness of the think pair share (TPS) and example and non-example methods. So need improvement. The methodology used is the one-group pretest-posttest design experiment. Before that, we test the data by normalitas and homogenitas. The data is normal and homogen The results showed that, the method of TPS and example non example can improve the learning outcomes of writing procedure text well. However, TPS method is better than example and non-example method. So that the teacher is expected to be able to use the methods well and effectively. Keywords—cooperative learning; teaching method; text procedure writing