The Implementation of Students Teams Achievement Divisions Assisted by Comic Media on Students’ Achievement in Writing

Abstract

This study dealt with the implementation of Students Teams Achievement Divisions (STAD) assisted by comic media to improve students’ achievement in writing. this research was created to investigate the improvement on the students’ writing achievement, to describe the students’ activities and the teachers’ performance in writing achievement by applying Students Teams Achievement Divisions (STAD) assisted by comic media. This study was conducted by using Classroom Action Research (CAR). The subject of this research was all students in IX-I at SMP SWASTA BAKTI II MEDAN. There were two kinds of data collected in this research, namely quantitative and qualitative data. The quantitative data were taken from the students’ score in writing achievement, while the qualitative ones obtained from the observation of students’ activity and teacher’s performance in learning process. Those data were analyzed quantitatively and qualitatively. The research findings showed that there was an improvement of students’ score after applying Students Teams Achievement Divisions (STAD) assisted by comic media; in pre-test, the students’ average score was 0% (no one got score more than 80), in cycle I, the students’ average score was 40% (10 students got score more than 80) and in cycle II the students’ average score was 84% (21 students got score more than 80). It was also found that the students’ activities and teacher’s performance increased; the average percentage of students’ activities in the learning process was 50.33% in the first cycle and increased to 83.5% in the second. While, the teacher’s performance in learning had improved well with the average percentage of 51% in the first cycle and 82% in second cycle. Based on the results from quantitative and qulitative data analysis, it was proved that Students Teams Achievement Divisions (STAD) assisted by comic media improved the students’ achievement in writing.