The effect of STAD (Students’ Team Achievement Division) method on students’ ability in writing explanation text at second grade in MAN Sipirok

Lestari, Sri (2017) The effect of STAD (Students’ Team Achievement Division) method on students’ ability in writing explanation text at second grade in MAN Sipirok. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Padangsidimpuan.

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Abstract

This research focused on the effect of STAD Method on Students’ Ability in Writing Explanation text at Second Grade in MAN Sipirok. The students’ problems were: 1) Students’ writing ability was low; 2) The students were lack to develop their idea to organize a sentence to be a paragraph ; 3) the students are less in vocabulary, structure and grammar mastery. Beside the students’ problem, teacher’s strategy also became a problem in learning writing explanation text. The teacher still used the conventional strategy in teaching writing explanation text. The purpose of this research was to examine the effect of STAD Method on Students’ Writing Explanation Text at Second Grade in MAN Sipirok. The method was used in this research was experimental research. The population was the second grade in MAN Sipirok. Total population were 3 classes. Two classes were chosen randomly as the sample. They were XI MIA-1 (experimental class) and XI MIA-2 (control class). It was taken after conducting normality and homogeneity test. The data was derived from pre-test and post-test. To measure the data, the researcher used t-test formula. After analyzing the data, the researcher found that mean score of experimental class after using STAD was higher than control class. Mean score of experimental class before using STAD was 58,3 and mean score after using STAD was 81. Meanwhile, the mean score of control class in pre-test was 54.5 and in post-test was 74. Besides it, the score of tcount was bigger than ttable (3.91>2.021). It means that the hypothesis alternative (Ha) was accepted. It was concluded that there was a significant effect of STAD method on students’ ability in writing explanation text at Second grade in MAN Sipirok.

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