Cooperative Learning Method for Improving Learning- Outcome in Digital Signal Processing Course

Digital Signal Processing (DSP) is a mandatory course for students of the Electrical Engineering Department in Universitas Andalas. The course is to provide an understanding of concepts of digital signal processing as well as its application. Teacher-centred Learning was used to deliver the course materials, which lead to the course learning outcome (CLO) not sufficiently fulfilled. This article is aimed at describing the implementation of cooperative learning method in DSP class. The objective of the research is to identify the effectiveness of the method in achieving the expected learning outcome in learning DSP. The study is conducted at the DSP class of Electrical Engineering Department at Andalas University. The data are collected by giving self-assessment, homework, a project and exams as tools for assessing the CLO. The analysis is done by relating the concept proposed with the target set in the semester learning plan. The result of the study is presented descriptively.