Abstract:
The objective of this study was to find out the comparison between cooperative
integrated reading and composition and student teams-achievement division to
VIII grade students of Mts. Al-Mushlihin Binjai at Jalan Kesatria, Binjai of
2016/2017 academic year. The type of this research is experiment. The population
of this research was 82 students of VIII-1 and VIII-2. The sample was taken as
two classes where VIII-1 consist of 40 students as Experiment Class I taught by
using CIRC and VIII-2 consist of 42 students as Experiment class 2 taught by
using STAD. Technique of analyzing data is consisted of normality, homogeneity
and hypothesis test. Based on homogeneity test, the data was taken from normal
distribution and homogeneous population. Hypothesis test is done by using
independent sample t test. To analyze the data, it used repeated measure t-test in
which the significance was determined by p<0.05. The result showed that the
students’ mean score in pretest for CIRC class was 48.55 and STAD class was
50.67 while the posttest mean score for CIRC class was 85 and STAD class was
88.5. The result also showed that there was a significant difference of the mean
score. It had increased to be 36.45 for CIRC class and 37.83 for STAD class after
treatments with the significant level of 0.05, it was noted that p=0.000. It proves
that the students’ score were significantly different (p=0.005). So, the hypothesis
proposed in this research was accepted. In conclusion, it can be said that
cooperative learning model STAD type was recommended to be used to the
students’ achievement on writing argumentative text.
